American Indian Airwaves: Recent Episodes
American Indian Airwaves
American Indian Airwaves, an Indigenous public affairs radio and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio programs within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories, and broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr
American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studio and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective first nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and Imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.
American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), our guest provides an extensive update on Mexico’s recent Constitutional reforms between June and July 2025, the February 2025 threat of the Trump Administration listing certain Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and possibly US military intervention, and how the new Constitutional reforms actually expand state and cartel powers which has already produced a spike or escalation in violent deaths of Indigenous peoples. Our guest will also discuss Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, administration approval of the Palenque-San Cristóbal Highway (~95 miles) and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their traditional homelands, expanded U.S. militarization of ICE in Michigan targeting, rounding up, and deporting immigrants in an era of U.S. authoritarian fascism, and more. Guest:Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created in the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
On May 8th, 2025, at the Vatican, the Conclave elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the 267th Bishop of Rome. Known as Pope Leo XIV, he succeeds Pope Francis, and inherits a long, violent and unresolved legacy of the Vatican’s role in committing intergenerational settler colonial violence and genocides against Indigenous peoples, clans, communities, and nations throughout the world. The Vatican’s complicity can be traced back to the 15th century issuance of three papal bulls, the first two decreed by Pope Nicholas V in 1452 and Romanus Pontifex (1455); and third by Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera in 1493.Known as the Doctrine of Dominion or Discovery, the Papal bulls authorized colonial powers such as Spain, Portugal, and other European monarchies and countries to seize lands and subjugate people in Africa and the western hemisphere so long as Indigenous peoples were not Christians. In the United States, the Doctrine of Dominion/discovery, indeed, is the foundation of America’s property law and federal Indian law that violently ensures Native Americans dispossession of their traditional and treaty homelands – a situation established by the Vatican in the 15th century. Over the centuries, the Vatican and its missionaries have been responsible for the theft of thousands and thousands of Indigenous peoples sacred or ceremonial items and other forms of cultural patrimony, which have either been on display at the Vatican Museum, or remain hostage at the Vatican and possibly other religious institutions. To date, the Vatican has not repatriated Indigenous ceremonial items back to Indigenous peoples and nations in violating the UNDRIP and denying Indigenous peoples fundamental rights. So, what does Pope Leo XIV mean for Indigenous peoples throughout the world? Pope Leo inherits Pope Francis’s legacy which includes: in 2022, the Vatican issuing an apology for the “catastrophic” legacy of residential schools in Canada; in 2023, the Vatican repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery” without calling for settler colonial countries to do the same, and in 2023, Pope Francis, despite the formal protest of 50 California Indian nations, was responsible for the canonization of the Spanish missionary Junipero Serra who masterminded the 18th-century Alta Spanish mission system that functioned as violent theological network attempting to vanquish Indigenous peoples along the coast of California and parts of the western hemisphere. Guest:Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear our special guest discuss the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), its history and January 2024 modifications along with its implications for Native Americans. In addition, our guest will provide an in-depth analysis about the increased aqua or ocean mining by non-renewable extractive industry companies for rare minerals - as part of the Green Economy – potentially jeopardizing, threatening, and/or destroying Native American sacred sites currently under the ocean. Our guest addresses what this situation means for Native American sacred sites off the coastal shorelines of Indigenous people’s traditional territories? Are there protections in place for these sacred sites? What happens when private companies encounter these sacred sites, and Native American ancestors, sacred items, and forms of cultural patrimony? What roles does NAGPRA play in these situations or does it? The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990 with the intended purposes to protect and return of Native American ancestors, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. By enacting NAGPRA, Congress recognized that Native American ancestors "must at all times be treated with dignity and respect." Congress also acknowledged that Native American ancestors and other cultural items removed from Federal or tribal lands belong to the lineal descendants, Native American nations, and Native Hawaiian organizations. Guest:•Shannon O’Loughlin is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and serves the Association on American Indian Affairs as its Chief Executive and Attorney. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 24 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. Shannon serves as Vice Chair of the Board at Native Ways Federation, which educates about informed giving to Native-led nonprofits. •She is a former Chief of Staff to the National Indian Gaming Commission, where she assisted in the development and implementation of national gaming policy, and oversaw the agency’s public affairs, technology, compliance and finance divisions. Shannon was appointed by Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee in 2013; and was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Native American to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee within the State Department in 2015. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear from the Climate Justice Organizer of the Pueblo Action Alliance, an Indigenous women and femme-led grassroots organization, which has been actively building both a community and a movement to resist false solutions being pushed across New Mexico and on Pueblo lands.In collaboration with the New Mexico No False Solutions Coalition, they successfully defeated eight state legislative bills promoting false solutions—including those advancing carbon capture, hydrogen, brackish and reclaimed water projects, and the reclassification of natural gas as renewable energy. The PAA’s intent is to keep this coalition growing and continue building power across the state. With this year’s turnout, Pueblo Action Alliance—alongside the No False Solutions Coalition—is setting the bar and offering a blueprint for how to build, empower, and uplift communities to defend the sacred from carbon colonialism. Listeners will hear this and more about the various successful campaigns of the PAA in defending the sacred in a “just transition”. Guest:•Alicia Gallegos, (Laguna Pueblo & Acoma Pueblo Nations), Climate Justice Organizer of the Pueblo Action Alliance (PAA). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Trump 2.0 is causing mass anxiety throughout “Indian Country” and across Turtle Island so far in 2025. As of mid-June 2025, the Trump Administration’s proposed Fiscal 2026 federal budget calls for nearly $1 billion in cuts to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and other federal Native American programs. In addition, President Trump signed “Birthright Citizenship” Executive Order 14160 on January 20th, 2025, where the Trump Administration believes it could denaturalize Native American U.S. citizenship, especially if the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. CASA, Inc. agrees with the Trump Administration.But Native America nations have an extra-constitutional relationship with the United States government, and this extra-constitutional relationship is the result of more than 380 signed and ratified treaties between Native American nations and the U.S. government – an approximate similar number of treaties were signed but never ratified. The U.S. government, however, must legally and adhere to its “Trust” responsibilities its treaty obligations. Enduring questions are guest addresses: Do the Trump Administration’s proposed budget cuts along with the DOGE cuts to federal programs violate the Treaties between Native American nations and the Trust Doctrine? In addition, does President Donald Trump’s Birthright Citizenship executive order place Native Americans in real threat of losing their U.S. citizenship contrary to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924? Lastly, does the combined actions of the Trump Administration plausibly suggest the possibility of new “Terminations” reminiscent of the 1950s?Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest for the hour provides an in-depth description and analysis on the Trump 2.0 Administrations actions within the context of the understanding the legalities and constitutionality of the treaties between the Native American nations and the U.S. federal government. Today’s interview was conducted prior to the four recent SCOTUS and lower court decisions on the Birthright Citizenship executive order. Guest:David E. Wilkins, a citizen of the Lumbee Nation, is a political scientist specializing in federal Indian policy and law. He is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies in the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies and professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota. He studies Indigenous politics, governance, and legal systems, with a particular focus on Native American sovereignty, self-determination, and diplomacy. Professor Wilkins is the author of numerous books including, but not limited to: Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent (2024), Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. (2024), Documents of Native American Political Development, 1933 to Present (2019), Red Prophet: The Punishing Intellectualism of Vine Deloria, Jr.(2018), Dismembered: Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights (2017), American Indian Politics and the American Political System, second edition, 2017, Hollow Justice: A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States (2013), The Hank Adams Reader (2011), The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law (2011), Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500 to 1933 (2009), On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions - Felix S. Cohen (2006), Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance (2003), Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law (2002), and Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations (2000). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, listeners will hear extensive update on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) newest and creative forms of resistance and rebellion throughout the Chiapas, Mexico region. The EZLN recently underwent internal changes to reflect a more localized community structure and revised their ideas of land ownership in attempting to align with Indigenous or Mayan ways of life. Listeners will hear about the Mayan art as expressed form of creative resistance and rebellion, and refusal of mega development projects threatening their traditional homelands, as well as the increased violence perpetrated against U.S. immigrants in time of rising Authoritarian Fascism with the Trump 2.0 Administration. Guest:Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created in the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, tune in and hear William I. Robinson speak on his book, War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), the systematic militarization against immigrants in the United States, global capitalism’s crisis and how the transnational capitalist class structures predatory mechanisms of settler colonial violence against Mother Earth, Indigenous peoples such as in Palestine, working peoples, and ecological systems as we know it. In addition, tune in to hear about how the legacy of capitalism’s violence through digital technologies are producing cheaper labor (“surplus humanity”), and how the capitalist system forms the basis for the non-renewable resource extractive industries comportment with the Green Economy and Green Capitalism. All this and more on today’s AIA program. Guest: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of several books, including War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today’s program (originally broadcasted on 2/20/2025) is on Protecting the Remaining Pre-Colonial, Genetic Buffalo Relations. Listen for the hour as our guest provides listeners with an extensive update on the last remaining buffalo relations in and around the Yellowstone National Park region continue to be attacked, prodded, coerced and killed as result of the Yellowstone National Park Services buffalo management practices and the state of Montana’s deceptive claims that killing more buffalo relations is necessary for ecologically sustainable purposes, all that and more. In since 2024 and up to March 2025, ~487 buffalo relations have been taken. Once numbering 30-60 million, bison were hunted to near extinction in the late 1800s. Men would shoot them through train windows for purpose for sport or the hide trade and left them to rot on the plains of Mother Earth. Entire herds were wiped out and the buffalo relations were slaughtered to gain control over Indigenous peoples who relied on bison for food, clothing, shelter, tools, cultural and spiritual practices, and more. Settler colonial knew this, and their strategy to eliminate buffalo relations was equivalent to eliminating Indigenous peoples traditional and cultural practices.By 1890, there were less than 1,000 bison with only twenty-three surviving in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley. Today, there are around 6,000 pre-colonial genetically intact buffalo relations living throughout the region who are constantly under threat from the state of Montana, hunters and ranchers, and the Yellowstone National Park’s buffalo management practices that could result in the substantial reduction of the buffalo population with its most recent proposal and with support of state of Montana. Guest:•Mike Mease, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, an in-depth interview with distinguished elder, storyteller, activist, cultural bearer, educator and more, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez on her recent book A Light to do Shellwork By,” Indigenous poetry, Chumash family history, sovereignty storytelling, memory holders, contemporary issues, and more. Listen to our guest share some of her poetry with listeners and more. According to Linda Hogan (Chickasaw Nation) “A Light To Do Shellwork By casts a luminous and rare spiritual history on the borders of one woman's belonging. Georgiana's poems hold light from the voice of ancestors and reveal her own place in the line of their history. Like her father, an exquisite carver, she uses her power with words to inscribe her own origins from Indigenous Ocean people as well as the desert nations who travel west in their song journey for salt. She sings a new passage, a shining connection of present with past and by the light of her words, this writer also delineates another truth of colonial history”.Guest:Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez (Chumash and O’odham Nations), Storyteller, Elder, Grandmother, Community Organizer, former adjunct faculty at California State University, Long Beach, and more. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast Thursdays from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays, 11am-12pm); and KBOO FM 90.7 FM Portland, 91.9 FM Hood River and 104.3 FM Corvallis, OR.Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
The interview with today’s guest, Laura Shamas (Chickasaw Nation) on her world premiere play Four Women in Red happened several days before the Los Angeles Fires (i.e., Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Kenneth Fire, and the Hurst Fire). The play was originally scheduled to premiere on January 17th, 2025, at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, California where performances were supposed to continue through February 23. As of January 11th, 2025, the Victory Theater Center announced that “With members of the cast, creative team and audience impacted by the wildfires, The Victory Theatre Center has canceled the previously announced January 17 opening of Four Women in Red, a new play by Laura Shamas about the current crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. A revised performance schedule will be announced at a later date.” Four Women in Red is about four resilient Native American women searching for missing friends and relatives in the face of apathetic sheriffs and dwindling clues. Touching on variety if critically important issues such as MMIW, settler colonial violence, and this moving new play celebrates the power of community as the women seek answers against all odds.While the interview references the January and February theater dates for the play, American Indian Airwaves is releasing the program because the fires are profoundly impacting all living relations (human and non-human), including Indigenous peoples involved with Four Women in Red and Indigenous throughout the region. The following are some support organizations providing relief and support for Indigenous peoples impacted by the fires. •UAII headquarters, 1453 W Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026, is asking for the following items to be donated: Water, diapers, Snacks, N95 masks, Zip ties, Gauze, Saline flushers & Syringes for insulin, Band aids, Sharps containers, Tampons & pads, batteries, flashlights, Pet food, Jackets & Blankets, Hygiene products, and First Aid Supplies.•Spoon Fed Company, owned by Jacob Spoonhunter, is “making small food care packages (on Friday, Jan. 10) to those who were effected [sic] by the fires as well as the first responders,” according to the company’s Instagram. Spoonhunter is Northern Arapaho, Navajo, and Seminole. Go to the Instagram page for any donations or email: spoonfedco@gmail.com.•Chef Stephanie Pyet DeSpain, Prairie Band Potawatomi and winner of “Next Level Chef,” told her Instagram followers that she and other chefs will be doing a pop-up to feed community members. A plan will come out in the next few days, she said. Pyet announced on Jan. 10 on Instagram that she is teaming with Island Smoke N Grill through Go Fund Me to distribute meals for first responders and displaced families. If anyone wants to donate, volunteer, or needs some food to eat, direct message her on Instagram or email: info@pyetsplate.com. •Meal + Donations for Our Indian Firefighter Crews. Suggested Donation Items: Chapstick, Body Wipes, Tylenol, Liquid in Powers, Protein Shakes or Bars, Nutritional Bars, Meat Sticks, Nuts (Trail Mix), and other nutritional snack items easily portable. Contact: Tencha (626) 409-7895 or Cheryl (562) 229-2005.Guest:Laura Shamas (Chickasaw Nations), is an accomplished Native American author, essayist, poet, journalist, playwright, and the recent recipient of the Los Angeles New Play Project (LANPP) grant for the play Four Women in Red which was first developed by Native Voices, the only Actors’ Equity theater company in the country dedicated to developing and producing new plays by Native artists.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, listeners will hear extensive update on why 31st Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion, the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on January 1st, 1994, against the colonial state of Mexico and global capitalism, was placed on hold.On January 1st, 1994, the Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands were recovered after the 12-day armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) against state violence and a legacy of settler colonial oppression. The EZLN’s actions are concrete evidence of how Zapatismo in Chiapas has improved the living conditions of the communities based on organization, autonomy, and self-determination. Tune in to hear about how the systemic and increased organized crime violence is having on Indigenous peoples throughout Chiapas, MX. Also, listeners will hear a recap of the major 2024 events for Indigenous peoples throughout the settler colonial state of Mexico such as the 50th anniversary of the important 1974 Indigenous Congress in Chiapas, convened by the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz, whose 100th birthday would have been in 2024. Moreover, hear about the 2024 elections such as with the MORENA party reelected by a landslide; and how Claudia Sheinbaum replaces AMLO, cementing MORENA monopoly on power and what that means for Indigenous and Mayan peoples. The MORENA party corruption means more extractive industry expansion, displacement of Indigenous peoples without free, prior, and informed consent, and the violent repression of Indigenous protests and resistance against megaprojects, plus more. Guest:•Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
December 29th of every year marks another anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890, and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopping Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge in what is presently known as South Dakota. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place near the Wounded Knee Creek during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American cultural traditions, ceremonies, and “religious” practices. Shortly thereafter the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued which resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over three hundred Indigenous women, children, and men. The Occupation of Wounded Knee from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973 is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) and supporters occupying Wounded Knee (Lakota Nation) in response to a call to action from traditional Lakota residents who’s civil, human, and treaty rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Indigenous and United States government officials. The Wound Knee Occupation resulted in a 67-day military standoff with U.S. government officials and quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s show on American Indian Airwaves is comprised of sound from two principal sources: The Pacifica Radio archives and the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. The Pacifica Radio Archives include original reports from Pacifica’s-affiliate station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA which covered live the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. In addition, sound from the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 includes reflective testimonies of the Wound Knee Indigenous activist such as Lenny Foster, Bill Means, Madonna Thunderhawk, and narrated by the late Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, plus more.American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Sundays 11am-12pm); FM 90.7 FM in Oregon on KBOO; and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
John Kush has been a part of the Chumash community's ongoing expression of unique art and culture since his early childhood. Our guest lives and works within the Chumash ancestral homelands as personal and professional artists and previously worked on several important projects for the Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC). Our guest’s artistic legacy spans decades and he joins for the hour to discuss the forthcoming, international indigenous exhibit: Decolonize Native Art (D.N.A.). which comprises of Indigenous artists across Turtle Island who express what decolonization means through their “art” and more. Tune in to hear about the D.N.A. exhibit, Chumash history and contemporary struggles and more. Guest:oJohn Kush (Chumash Nation) is the principal organizer for the upcoming Decolonize Native Art (DNA), which is being held at the Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, from 12/13/2024-12/18/2024.Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
On Indigenous Peoples Day in October 2024, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) designated the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the California coast. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary makes it America’s 17th national marine sanctuary, the sixth off the U.S. West Coast, and it is considered one of the largest in the National Marine Sanctuary System. The sanctuary encompasses 4,543 square miles of Central California’s coastal and ocean waters, providing protection to nationally significant natural, cultural, and historical resources while bringing new opportunities for research, community engagement, and education and outreach activities.While much of the settler colonial and some Indigenous media treated the designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary as beneficial for the Chumash Nation and Mother Earth, there are larger questions about the true origins of the proposed Chumash Maritime Sanctuary along with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) process of adhering to all bands of Chumash nations free, prior, and informed consent international rights, and the failed mechanisms within between different Chumash bands and the NOAA, plus more. Today on American Indian Airwaves we address all these questions with our guests who combined with themselves and their ancestors have decades of living experiences protecting their cultural and traditional practices while simultaneous resisting settler colonial violence.Guest:oMicheal Khus-Zarate (Chumash), Board Member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and Marcus Lopez (Barbareño band of the Chumash Nation), co-host and executive producer of American Indian Airwaves.
Since President Abraham Lincoln established observing the Thanksgiving Day holiday in 1863 to heal a fractured country amid the American Civil War (1861-1865). Consequentially, Americans for generations have believed in and centralized their national identity within several mythologies, including the propaganda surrounding the purported first thanksgiving between the Wampanoags and the pilgrims. Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest from the Aquinnah Wampanoag nation joins us for the entire hour to discuss in-depth the origins of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday, the settler colonial perpetrators of violence and fabrication regarding this mythology that traces back to 1620s, the National Day of Mourning, the censorship of Frank “Wamsutta” Jame’s speech in 1970 for the 350th Anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing, who are the Wampanoag peoples along with their cultural and traditional practices, and more. Guest:oLinda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) is an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, and lives in the Wampanoag community of Mashpee on Cape Cod, MA. In addition, our guest worked for over 30 years in the Wampanoag Indigenous Program (WIP) of Plimoth Plantation, including 15 years as the WIP’s Associate Director; and worked 9 years at the Aquinnah Cultural Center. She is the recent author of the remarkable book: Colonization and the Wampanoag Story (2023)Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
On October 25th, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country.At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system over a 150-year period that ended in 1969, according to an Interior Department investigation that called for a U.S. government apology. At least 18,000 children, some as young as 4, were taken from their parents and forced to attend schools that sought to assimilate them. There were more than 523 U.S. government-funded, and often church-run, boarding schools between 1869 and 1969. Children between the ages of 6 to 16 were not only taken from their parents, communities, and nations, but also, they were forced to compulsory education. The U.S. government purposes of the operating the boarding schools was to erase Native American identities and strip them of them cultures and ultimately eradicate them as The Peoples. Native American children were forced to endure American militarization by having their cut and wear military-style clothing, they were given anglicized names – often Christian names and former president names; In fact, Native American children forced to learn Christianity and basic male and female labor skills.During the early boarding school era, all cultural practices and languages were banned and punishment followed if caught. Native American children were starved to control them; they faced disease (e.g., tuberculosis, mumps, etc.) which led to being placed into the infirmary and isolation until death; they were tortured, worked as forced labor, and often experienced pedophilia, sexual abuse, psychological and physical abuse and death at the hands U.S. government agents. The United States Board School system was designed to assimilate Native Americans into American society by killing them as The Peoples. More than 140 different Native Americans nations alone were negatively impacted by 1918, and our guest recently authored a statement in response to U.S. Government’s apology for its violent legacy of operating Native American boarding school. Today on American Indian Airwaves, Marcus Lopez from the Barbareño Band of the Chumash Nation, and co-host and executive producer of AIA, along with myself have the honor and pleasure to speak with Chris Peters from the Puhlik-lah/Karuk nations. He is a long-time, activist, community organizer, elder, cultural bearer, and President of the 7th Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. Chris has more than 50 years of experience in grassroots community organizing with his work focusing on climate change, sacred sites protection, and the renaissance of sacred knowledge and Earth Renewal ceremonies of Northern California Tribal Peoples. We have in-depth conversations with Chris Peters on his recently authored statement on the U.S. Presidential apology regarding the violent settler colonial legacy of U.S. government Native American boarding schools, plus more. Guest:oChris Peters (Puhlik-lah/Karuk Nations), activist, community organizer, elder, cultural bearer, and President of the 7th Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. Chris has more than 50 years of experience in grassroots community organizing with his work focusing on climate change, sacred sites protection, and the renaissance of sacred knowledge and Earth Renewal ceremonies of Northern California Tribal Peoples.Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
The idea of Indigenous Peoples Day originated in 1977, in Geneva, at the first International NGO Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the America. The conference was attended by Indigenous peoples throughout world and by the conclusion of the conference, a list of recommendations was drafted, outlining a course of action to support Indigenous peoples right to self-determination, a formal rebuttal was declared to Doctrine of Discovery or Dominion, and Indigenous peoples stated their intention “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International Day of Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.”Thereafter in the United States, cities and states started observing Indigenous Peoples Day including for example, in 1989 South Dakota adopted Native American Day; on 10/22/91, the Berkely, CA city council adopts Indigenous Peoples Day. In the City of Los Angeles, CA, the city council declared the second Monday of October Indigenous Peoples Day and in 2019, CA Governor Gavin Newsom declared Indigenous Peoples’ Day a California holiday. To date, it is estimated that a little over 150 cities celebrate or observe Indigenous Peoples Day out of 19,502 incorporated cities, towns, and villages in the United States. Presumably, in cities with large or semi-large Native American/Indigenous communities. At the state level, 28 states observe Indigenous Peoples Day, but only three states, Maine, Nebraska, and New Mexico deem it a state holiday. The Washington DC district also considers it a holiday. At the federal level, in October 2021, President Biden designated the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day and The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act (SB 2970) which if passed would replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday and designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day was introduced in Congress in 2021 and reintroduced in Congress in 2023 with no traction since then. As of 2024, for the few cities and states that observe Indigenous Peoples Day with celebrations, they still acknowledge Columbus Day as the default, often, paid holiday. There are many contradictions to celebrating and participating in Indigenous People Day celebrations at the city and state levels and today on American Indian Airwaves we have a round-table discussion on what is Indigenous Peoples Day? Our discussion panel includes Fidel Rodriguez of Chumash Nation and host of the former KPFK Divine Forces Radio and Marcus Lopez, of Barberieno band of the Chumash Nation and executive producer and host American Indian Airwaves, and me. We begin today’s program with the question of what Indigenous Peoples Day mean to you with Marcus Lopez first and followed by Fidel Rodriguez second. And the now the Contradictions of Indigenous Peoples Day here on American Indian Airwaves. Guests:o Marcus Lopez, (Barbareño Band of the Chumash Nation), executive producer of American Indian Airwaves, Fidel Rodriquez (Chumash Nation) and former host of KPFK’s Divine Forces Radio, and Larry Smith (Lumbee Nation).Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd,
As of September 10th, 2024 (Tuesdays), estimates are that the 2024 fires have burned 2,247,356 acres with seventy-one (71) large active fires presently active across Turtle Island (the United States) such as in the politically defined borders of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming. In California alone, there are approximately more than twenty (20) active fires and thousands of people are currently under mandatory evacuation orders in numerous counties such as Lake County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and within the foothills of the Los Angeles National Forest. Today on American Indian Airwaves our guest discusses the 2024 fires impact on California Indigenous peoples, nations, and their homelands; how the historical and contemporary legacies of settler colonial violence contributes to the present form of the climate crises, how Indigenous relations and cultural sustainability for future generations face insurmountable and compounded risks provided the perpetrators and collaborators of the climate crises maintain their violent behaviors and operations, and how traditional forms of Indigenous fire-management practices are not only different compared to common United States fire management practices, but also with Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Indigenous Stewardship (IS), along with climate resilience through ecocultural stewardship, new possibilities for reindigenizing Mother Earth, centering and balancing the trajectory for cultural sustainability, and healing are tenable. In fact, many Native American nations, organizations, and communities within the state of California are already performing the hard work of Indigenous Stewardship while facing settler colonial obstacles, yet they provide direction for the future. All this and more is covered on today’s episode of American Indian Airwaves.Guests:oDon Hankins (Miwok Nation), Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico State, co-founder of the Indigenous Stewardship Network (https://www.indigenousstewardship.org), and author and contributing author of numerous publications such as “Climate Resilience through Ecocultural Stewardship” (2024), and “Realignment of Federal Environmental Policies to Recognize Fire’s Role” (2024).Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more
“Southern Alaska Native Nations’ Intervention: Stopping the Extractive Mining Industry from Maiming and Extinguishing Life”Today on American Indian Airwaves, we go to southeast Alaska and British Colombia (B.C.), Canada, to discuss the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC), which consists of 15 Indigenous nations in southeast Alaska and rooted along Canada’s transboundary rivers, recent submission of a formal request with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a legal organization that is part of the Organization of American States (OAS), to halt the protracted and reckless mining activities that are violating Indigenous peoples human rights throughout the region. Dozens of mining companies are seeking permission from the British Columbia (B.C.) government to develop some of the world’s largest gold mines in the headwaters of Southeast Alaska’s transboundary rivers, and the Canadian government continues denying the sovereign rights of the Alaskan Native nations living downstream from the extractive mining activities. In fact, a recent decision, ordered by Canada’s Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship on June 27th, 2024, could guarantee the destruction of both a critical ecological hotspot and the ways of life of the Southeast Alaska nations. For example, Skeena Resources Limited (“Skeena”) proposed in 2021 a major gold and silver mining project called The Eskay Creek Project. It is one of eight mines in B.C. that are at issue, but the Esky Project, which is in the final environmental review state, and if built, would produce an estimated 7.5 million tons of gold and silver over an estimated 14-year mine life span and the project would be in the same area as a previous mine that operated from 1994-2008. Lastly, the Esky Creek Project risk southern Alaska Native nations, rivers including the Unuk, Stikine, and Taku, five species of wild Pacific salmon, and more traditional lifeways with possible extinction if left unheeded.Guests:Guy Archibald, Executive Director, of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (www.seitc.org). Guy is an analytical environmental chemist and microbiologist with over 20 years of experience. He works to utilize western science and apply traditional knowledge and practices to protect the various communities, the forest, salmon, trees, and people. Esther Reese is Eagle Tsaagweidí (Killerwhale) from Ḵéex̱ʼ Kwáan (Kake), Alaska. She is President of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (www.seitc.org), and serves as the Tribal Administrator for the Wrangell Cooperative Association, the federally recognized Tribe in Wrangell, an Alaska Native nation at the mouth of the Stikine River.Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists with DeLanna Studi & the 30th Anniversary of Native Voices at the Autry”2024 marks the 30th Anniversary for the Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity Theatre in the country developing and producing plays written by Native American playwrights. Since Native Voices inception, many aspiring, working, and veteran Native American playwrights, artists, and actors/actresses have benefited from having this invaluable program and resources the Autry provides for assisting Native American storyteller and storying in various forms. Located in Los Angeles County, CA, Native Voices at the Autry celebrates its accomplishments and recent partnership with the Generation Now Theater Partnership, which is comprised of BIPOC artists presently creating new artistic creations targeting multigenerational audiences. Our guest for today, joins us for the hour to discuss the 30th Anniversary of Native Voices at the Autry and its continuing legacy for providing Native American artists and aspiring artists a space in theater and the arts as well as to the multi coalition Generation Now Theater Partnership project, the importance of Native American storytelling, upcoming Native American plays and projects, plus more. Click on the titles for more information on the Autry Museum of the West, Native Voices, and upcoming Autry events. Guest:DeLanna Studi (Cherokee Nation) is an accomplished performer, storyteller, playwright, and activist for over 25 years. Some of her theater credits include the First National Broadway Tour of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play August: Osage County, Off-Broadway’s Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre), Informed Consent (Duke Theater on 42nd Street).In addition, DeLanna originated roles in over thirty World Premieres, including writing and performing in And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears where she retraced her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father.Her film and television contributions extend more than 20 years, and, in fact, DeLanna starred in the Peabody Award winning Edge of America, Hallmark’s Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, General Hospital, Disney + Launchpad: The Roof, and Reservation Dogs to name just a few. She has served as a cultural liaison for theatre, film, and television, most recently the television series La Brea. Our guest has also been the chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee since 2007 and she presently is the Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity Theatre in the country developing and producing plays written by Native American playwrights. Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful connections to land and water. Like many Indigenous communities and nations worldwide, we continue to assert our rights to self-determination by resisting legacies of colonialism and the continued transformation of their homelands through pollution, unsustainable development, and climate change. Today’s guest is Environmental scientist Ryan E. Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. From addressing issues such as the profound loss of wetlands to the arrival of gas pipelines, Dr. Emanuel connects all the stories together and shows the relationships between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights on the swamp. All that more, on today’s episode. Guest:Dr. Ryan Emanuel, Lumbee hydrologist and community-engaged scholar from North Carolina. A tenured faculty member at Duke University, Ryan leads a research group based at the Duke River Center that studies how humans and our non-human relatives affect (and are affected by) water and environmental processes. His work promotes environmental justice and Indigenous rights through research, teaching, and public engagement. He has written or co-authored more than 50 academic articles. Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: @burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
The “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an indigenous and First Nation ceremonial run that invites the participation of Native and non-Native individuals committed to the survival of Native American cultures, nations, and the uniting of the indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (North, Central and South America). With its roots in traditions of running as prayer and as an expression of indigenous cultural self-determination, the Peace & Dignity Journeys was formally established in 1990 in Quito, Ecuador at a gathering of over two hundred representatives from different Indigenous nations from throughout the western hemisphere.The 6,000-mile, seven-month spiritual relay run takes place every four years and this year runners will begin in Fairbanks, Alaska running south and in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina running north, eventually all runners will converge and meet El Cuaca, Columbia. Tune in to hear our guests discuss this year’s significantly important Peace and Journeys 2024 ceremonial run, the organizational coordination for the preparation across Turtle Island, and how people can help and who can participate. Listen to our guests inform listeners on the themes for each Peace and Dignity Journeys, how the climate crises are impacting the ceremony, the role of Indigenous nations and communities supporting the runners, and what are some the trial and tribulation, accomplishments and struggles, four weeks into the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024 along the northern route which began in May 2024.Guests:Adelia Torres, California Organizer and a Contributory Organizer for the West Coast P&D Committee, and Eddie Gonzales, Santa Barbara organizers for the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024 – Central Coast. For more information, you can visit: www.peacedignitycentralcoast.orgArchived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: @burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today we go to the state of Alaska which is home to 229 federally recognized Native American nations. Our guest joins us for the hour to share her experiences at the United Nations Environmental Programme 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (April 23rd-29th, 2024), including the United States violations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.S. militarism, plastic colonization from the violent legacy of the American petroleum and chemical companies maiming, MMIWG2+, and the wounding and killing life throughout the Arctic region combined forms are intensifying the process of genocide and are placing Indigenous peoples throughout the Arctic Circumpolar Region futures at risk.There are more than 13 million people from more than 40 ethnic groups and Indigenous nations inhabiting the Arctic Circumpolar North region and all face real and formidable risks and threats from the climate crises, state-corporate violence, other compounded forms of settler colonial violence, including the intergenerational harms caused from plastic colonization. With the annual plastic production doubling in 20 years to 460 million tons, plastic contributions to global warming could more than double by 2060 if current rates remain unchanged. Plastic colonization severely impacts the Arctic region and it is, in fact, a “hemispheric sink” where plastics and petrochemicals from the South (of the Arctic region) accumulate, leaving Indigenous communities and nations to bear the brunt of pollution that did not come from their traditional lands.The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 4th Session was held from April 23rd to April 29th, 2024 in Ottawa, Cananda. The meeting, nonetheless, was attended by 480 observer organizations, including environmental NGOs and 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists and its purposes was for all parties to develop a legally binding instrument that ultimately would eliminate toxic plastic productions as one way to stop plastic colonialism, the killing life on the Mother Earth, and help reduce the impacts of the climate crises. Listen to hear what happened and how Indigenous peoples and nations were treated. Guest:Vi Waghiyi, Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen, grandmother, mother, activist, and she is the Environmental Health and Justice Director with the Alaska Community Action on Toxics (https://www.akaction.org). Vi Waghiyi is a nationally recognized environmental justice leader and is frequently invited to speak locally, nationally, and internationally. Vi serves as a leader of the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus that advises the United Nation’s international delegates for treaties concerning persistent organic pollutants. She served as a member of the Environmental Health Sciences Council that advises the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The Native Village of Savoonga is located on what is colonially known as the St. Lawrence Island which is located west of mainland Alaska in the Bering Sea.See the co-authored Alaska Community Action on Toxics and IPEN April 2024 report titled: The Arctic’s Plastic Crisis: Toxic Threats to Health, Human Rights, and Indigenous Lands From the Petrochemical Industry. Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves we go to the Barbareño band of the Chumash Nation in the Santa Barbara County area to a Chumash sacred site respectfully known as Shalawa. Approximately three-acres of Shalawa remains and to non-Native American peoples, the place is commonly referred to as “Hammonds Meadow” and “Sea Meadow”. Since Spanish colonialization beginning, Shalawa has always been threatened by settler colonial violence. However, in 1985 the United Chumash Council, the Barbareño Chumash Tribal Council, the Board of Supervisors in Santa Barbara, CA, to name just a few parties, executed an agreement to protect Shalawa. In addition, several documents were produced by various parties re-stating the laws and commitments to protecting this sacred site. Today on American Indian Airwaves listeners are joined by David Bluewolf Diaz (Chumash Nation) and Marcus Lopez (Barbareño band of the Chumash Nation), co-host and executive producer of American Indian Airwaves. Both individuals have been tirelessly working to protect Shalawa for more than 35 years and on today’s program listeners will hear how both Indigenous community activists clearly demonstrate how the current Hammond Meadow – Shalawa Preservation and Restoration Plan, is rife with government malfeasance – from the local to national levels -, gross negligence, and if the restoration plan is fully executed, it will result in the ultimate desecration of Shalawa. Tune in, to learn the history of land, the historical and contemporary struggles to protect Shalawa, and what people can do to stop this settler colonial violence. Guest:•David Bluewolf Diaz (Chumash Nation) and Marcus Lopez (Chumash Nation and the Barbareño Chumash Tribal Council of Santa Barbara, https://bctcsb.com/). Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
As of 4/23/2024 at least 34,183 Palestinians have been killed; 77,143 wounded have been wounded; over 8,000 Palestinians are missing, and over 50% of all Palestinian homes have been destroyed as a result of the Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Meanwhile, common diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis, to name a few, are rapidly spreading throughout Gaza. In fact, it is estimated that 15 people are killed - six are children every hour in Gaza. In the Occupied West Bank, at least 487 Palestinians have been killed, more than 4,800 have been injured, and over 7,350 have been arrested since March 2024. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7th, 2023, attacks stand at 1,139 with dozens still held captive in Gaza. In the United States American Citizens Constitutionally protected free speech rights and the right to assembly are constantly being attacked by universities and colleges. Recently, USC cancelled Asna Tabassum, a graduating senior at USC, valedictorian’s graduation speech. She was selected as valedictorian and offered a traditional slot to speak at the 2024 graduation. In addition, Columbia University has suspended the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, citing “University policies” regulating “the time, place and manner of certain forms of public expression.” To date, more than 100 students have been arrested. Join us for the hour on American Indian Airwaves as our guest draws on the parallels between the legacy of settler colonial violence here in the United States to Israel’s violence and war on Palestine and Palestinians, from past to present, and what does peace look like for all life on Mother Earth. All that and more! Guest:oAdam Gottlieb, Jewish musician, poet, peace movement organizer in Chicago, IL; and a cantor with Tzedek Chicago, an anti-Zionist synagogue. Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
The “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an indigenous and First Nation ceremonial run that invites the participation of Native and non-Native individuals committed to the survival of Native American cultures, nations, and the uniting of the indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (North, Central and South America). With its roots in traditions of running as prayer and as an expression of indigenous cultural self-determination, the Peace & Dignity Journeys was formally established in 1990 in Quito, Ecuador at a gathering of over two hundred representatives from different Indigenous nations from throughout the western hemisphere.The 6,000-mile, seven-month spiritual relay run takes place every four years and this year runners will begin in Fairbanks, Alaska running south and in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina running north, eventually all runners will converge and meet El Cuaca, Columbia. Tune in to hear our guests discuss this year’s significantly important Peace and Journeys 2024 ceremonial run, the organizational coordination for the preparation across Turtle Island, and how people can help and who can participate. This year’s Peace and Dignity Journeys starts in May 2024. Guests:Eddie Gonzales and Marcus Vargas are organizers and co-chairs for the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2024 – Central Coast. For more information, you can visit: www.peacedignitycentralcoast.org Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
With Hollywood film production costs easily exceeding millions of dollars per film, and given the constant marginalization, erasures, and stereotypes about Native Americans and Indigenous peoples for more than a century, as well as the film industry’s chronic unwillingness to unconditionally support an abundance of Native American film productions, distributions, and exhibitions, many Native Americans film writers, producers, and directors find themselves working independently outside of the Hollywood-entertainment media system. Our guest for the hour is the writer, director and producer of a new feature film, The Heart Stays (2024), a coming-of-age story about two Osage sisters. Cast with veteran and non-veteran Native American actors/actresses, our guest for the hour emphasizes the unique artistic importance of the film, demonstrates how the film’s story is an artistically superior method of Native storytelling, and expresses how a unique community-based business model was used to produce The Heart Stays. Tune in for the hour to hear our guest explain how and where the film was made and how this ground-breaking and newly produced featured film is truly a Native American film that all must experience and see.The Heart Stays was released on March 26th, 2024, and is available on a variety of digital streaming platforms including, but not limited to: Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, and DirecTV.Guest:•Diane Fraher (Osage/Cherokee Nations), founder and director of Amerinda Inc., a community-based multi-arts organization that works to empower Native Americans. She also the writer, director and producer of a new feature film, The Heart Stays (2024), a coming-of-age story about two Osage sisters filmed on Osage Nation.Archived AIA programs are on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Once numbering at least 40-60 million, settler colonial men once hunted the buffalo through the train windows for sport – who had the most kills. By 1890, however, there were less than 1,000 buffalo with only 23 surviving in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley. Today, in Yellowstone National Park, the buffalo are trapped for slaughter and quarantine. In fact, once migrating into Montana, the buffalo are under the control of the Department of Livestock instead of Yellowstone Park National Service. When trapped, the buffalo are often tested for Brucellosis – the disease given to them by cattle.In Gardiner, MT, a group of 28 buffalo migrating into Gardiner Basin were recently trapped by Yellowstone National Park at Stephens Creek near Gardiner, Montana. The group was the first buffalo to migrate into the basin this season. Another group of 49 buffalo migrated beyond Yellowstone National Park’s trap and the remaining buffalo retreated from the National Forest to Yellowstone National Park.Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest provides in-depth updates on the U.S. National Park Services failed Bison Management program and the Yellowstone National Park continued operations causing the depopulation of the last remaining original genetically pure buffalo herds (~9,000), the failed Endangered Species Act, how the climate crises is impacting the ecosystems throughout the region and the buffalo relations, as well as how the U.S. government’s divide and conquer strategy in creating buffalo policies simultaneous benefits larger Native American nations buffalo management programs from far way compared to local and smaller Native American nations near the Yellowstone Nation Park regions. Moreover, our guest highlights the cultural importance of the buffalo relations for Native American lifeways and what is threatening the cultural sustainability for future Native America nations. Guest:•James Holt Sr. (Nimiipuu Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), and the board member for International Wildlife Coexistance NetworkArchived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp
In a coordinated effort between several federal and local government agencies and private contractors, more than 400,000 tons of toxic and hazards waste are planning to be removed from Lahaina and transported to the temporary debris storage site in Olowalu. The toxic and hazardous waste includes high levels of household waste, asbestos, arsenic, lead, and other toxins.Meanwhile an emergency declaration remains active which allows for side-setting and ignoring various federal, state, city laws and ordinances as part of toxic and hazardous waste removal efforts and any future development to rebuild Lahaina. Excluded or marginalized from the any of the actions, from waste removal and storage which would desecrate sacred sites, to the planned development, which will recolonize Lahaina, are some of the lineal descendants and other Kanaka maoli working to defend and stop the harm to Mother Earth in the Hawaiian Nation.Guests:•Ka’io Martin Cruz and John Cruz, creators and organizers of the People’s Community Council of Maui.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp
How does history relate to the present? What is settler colonialism? How are the two related to each other and what is the connection between the past to the present? What is Zionism? What is the Doctrine of Discovery/Dominion? Moreover, how does this relate to Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island? What are the parallels between the legacy of settler colonialism in what is presently the United States to the history of what is known as Palestine? With the continued escalation of settler colonial violence and genocides being perpetrated by the Israeli government against the Palestinian peoples in Gaza and the West Bank, we ask these questions including what is the history and birth of Zionism as a settler colonial project and what are stark similarities to the Doctrine of Discovery/Dominion as the basis for the birthing of the United States settler colonial project in dispossessing Native American Nations of their traditional homelands. Listen to an in-depth interview about the settler colonial equivalents between here and there, past and present, across of all Mother Earth. Guest:Dr. Rashid Ismail Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the History Department at Columbia University and is the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. In addition, he was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of over ten publications, including his most recent book: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Thursday, 01/25/2024, on American Indian Airwaves “Defiling Mother Earth: Stopping the Mountain Valley Pipeline”Today on American Indian Airwaves listeners will hear an update the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline construction struggles and how the Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, a joint venture of several companies operating in the extractive industries, could desecrate Native American sacred and cultural sites with the planned construction of the Southgate portion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline into what is called the state of North Carolina. Meanwhile, listeners will be informed about the how the Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC. is presenting suing over 40 land defenders, and two organizations (Appalachians Against Pipelines and Rising Tide North America) with Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (S.L.A.P.P.) lawsuits. SLAPP lawsuits are often instigated by wealthy corporations and sometimes the state. It is powerful legal tactic used to silence and censor Native Americans, U.S. citizens, grassroots peoples, activists, and even organizations. SLAPP lawsuits result in violating peoples U.S. Constitutionally protected Free Speech rights and their right to assemble while the lawsuits move through the court system. Moreover, SLAPP lawsuits are financially expensive for Native Americans, U.S. citizens, activist, land defenders, water protectors, and grassroots and non-profit organizations, that result is systemic financial harms. The Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC is a joint venture of Equitrans Midstream, NextEra Energy Resources, Consolidated Edison, and RGC Resources, and other companies. The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again. The remaining construction is over rugged terrain, with hundreds of water crossings left to bridge. The pipeline runs through the states of West Virgina, south Virgina, and possibly into North Carolina, including through and adjacent to mostly Native American communities, POC neighborhoods, and poorer white communities. Beside the land and water damages, if the pipeline is fully constructed, the long-term, irreversible danger is releasing 90 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from producing, transporting, and burning all that methane over the 40 to 50 years the pipeline’s life expectancy. Tune in to hear more about the struggle over the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the U.S Congress political back deals and the U.S. Supreme Court’s complicity in sanctioning the original pipeline route’s contrition, and what listeners can do to defend the sacred. Guest:Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck, member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, co-founder of Seven Directions of Service, and chair of the NAACP Environmental Justice Committee.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, we will hear highlights on what happened at the 30th Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion, the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on January 1st, 1994, against the colonial state of Mexico and global capitalism. The anniversary-gathering was organized by thousands of Zapatista support bases, Mayan men, women, boys, girls, elderly and older men and women who celebrated three decades of resistance to the capitalist, settler colonial system with cultural sports, arts, music, food, popular dance, and other forms of living cultural expressions. The Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands were recovered after the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994 and are concrete evidence of how Zapatismo in Chiapas has improved the living conditions of the communities based on organization, autonomy, and self-determination. Tune in and listen to hear about the EZLN’s major announcements reflecting major changes in self-determination, autonomy, and independence in anti-colonial and anti-capitalism struggles. In addition, listeners will hear about the legacy of Indigenous women, their roles, contributions over the past four generations changing oppressive systems of heteronormative cis-gendered patriarchy. Also, well hear updates on the globalized and militarized Cartels and major megaprojects that threaten the Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands and all life systems in Chiapas, MX. All that and more. Guest:•Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Diné ‘defender of the sacred, artist, activist, musician, author, land defender, Warrior,’ Klee Benally Walks On or transitioned on the morning of December 31, 2023. He was 48 years old and from what the place of many houses in what is known as Flagstaff, AZ. He was from the Tódích’íi’nii (Bitter Water People clan and born for the Wandering People clan).Klee Benally was a long-time advocate in combating violent forms of colonialism such as speaking out on ending Native American homelessness, combating systemic police violence, the clean up of thousands of abandon uranium mines as part of a much larger settler legacy of nuclear colonialism in which Native American nations have been and continue be on the front-lines including the Dine’ or Navajo nation. He also tirelessly fought against all forms of Indigenous cultural appropriation, worked to defend the "San Francisco Peaks," actively was involved with Indigenous Action (https://www.indigenousaction.org/), and supported Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. He is a loving and caring person centered in defending the sacred and is the creator’s gift to the many of us he touched. Today on American Indian Airwaves, we will hear selected songs from the various musical projects he was involved with, helped create, and contributed over the years. Like his musical lyrics and life works focusing on Native American liberation, dismantling colonialism, and expressing stories of struggles and survivance, he is the creator of a newly released game called 'Burn the Fort' (https://burnthefort.com/). The game is a semi-cooperative game where each player takes the role of a historic warrior fighting to stop colonial invasion of their lands in acts of fierce anti-colonial resistance. 'Burn the Fort' was released in late December of 2023.He was also busy writing, mostly during the COVID pandemic, which continues, and authored a brand-new book released on Detritus Books called 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred', which was released on 11/18/2023 (https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred). The book is a searing anti-colonial analysis rooted in frontline experiences and a living testimony of Benally’s life experiences in defending the sacred in anti-colonial struggles. Song ListAppropriation, Song: “Fire to the Cages”. Album: Appropriation (2021). Klee Benally, Song: “Weather Changes”. Album: Respect Resistance or Expect Resistance (2013). Klee Benally, Song: “Holding Up the Sky”. Album: The Unsustainable Sessions (2019). Blackfire, Song: “Mean Things Happenin’ in this World”. Album: The Woodie Guthrie Sessions (2003). Appropriation, Song: “Toward’s Peabody’s Demise”. Album: Appropriation (2021). Klee Benally, Song: “She was a Mountain”. Album: The Unsustainable Sessions (2019).Klee Benally, Song: “One Brutal Violent Machine”. Album: Respect Resistance or Expect Resistance (2013). Blackfire, Song: “Silence is a Weapon”. Album: Silence is a Weapon (2007). Appropriation, Song: “Our Autonomy”. Album: Appropriation (2021).Klee Benally, Song: “At the Edge of the World”. Album: Respect Resistance or Expect Resistance (2013). Blackfire, Song: “NDN Alien”. Album: Silence is a Weapon (2007). Appropriation, Song: “Nothing for Ourselves Feat. Sage Bond”. Album: Appropriation (2021). Blackfire, Song: “The Power Is Out”. Album: Silence is a Weapon (2007). Klee Benally, Song: “Hands on a Barbed Wire”. Album: The Unsustainable Sessions (2019). Klee Benally, Song: “A Matter of Action”. Album: Respect Resistance or Expect Resistance (2013). Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
December 29th of every year marks another anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopped Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge in what is now known as South Dakota. The Would Knee Massacre took place near the Wounded Knee Creek during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American traditions and ceremonies. Shortly thereafter the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued which resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over 300 Indigenous women, children, and men. The Occupation of Wounded Knee from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973 is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee (Lakota Nation) in response to a call to action from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and treaty rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Indigenous and United States government officials. The Wound Knee Occupation resulted in a 67-day military standoff with U.S. government officials and quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s show on American Indian Airwaves is comprised of sound from two principal sources: The Pacifica Radio archives and the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. The Pacifica Radio Archives include original reports from Pacifica’s-affiliate station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA which covered live the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. In addition, sound from the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 includes reflective testimonies of the Wound Knee Indigenous activist such as Lenny Foster, Bill Means, Madonna Thunderhawk, and narrated by the late Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, plus more.American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays 11am-12pm); and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
So far, 2023 has been a remarkable year for Indigenous musicians across Turtle Island. Many Native Americans bands, First Nation’s musicians, and Indigenous peoples from the Siberian region have released new music over the past several months, and two different First Nations bands from Australia were recognized at the 19th National Indigenous Music Awards on August 12th, 2023 – one band inducted into the Hall of Fame for decades-long contributions to music, and the other band for the Archie Roach Foundation Award. Today on American Indian Airwaves, we hear music from Native American and Indigenous musicians that have either released new songs and albums over the past several months and/or have won awards for their acknowledgements and contributions towards Indigenous music across Turtle Island. Song List: Track 1: Artist: Eekwol, Song: “Settle Down” (2023), Single. (Lindsay Knight) is an Indigenous hip-artist, scholar, and activist, from the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her first rap album was released in 1998. Track 2: Artist: Mato Wayuhi, Song” BOOGEY BOY feat. Niandra Blonde” (2023). Oglala Lakota, accomplished musician and known for scoring the music for the Indigenous program Reservation Dogs (2021-2023).https://matowayuhi.net/Track 3: Artist: Raye Zaragoza, Song: ”Hold that Spirit”. Album Hold that Spirit (2023). https://www.rayezaragoza.com/Track 4: Artist: Andrian Sutherland, Song: “Notawe (Father)” (2023). Exclusive single premiere from the forthcoming album. Omushkegowuk Cree Nation: artist and song. https://adriansutherlandmusic.com/ Track 5: Artist: Yothu Yindi, Song: “Treaty” (1991/2012). Albums: Tribal Voice (1991)/One Blood (2012). Yothu Yindi performed and inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 19th National Indigenous Music Awards on 8/12/2023 in Australia. https://www.yothuyindi.com.au/Track 6: Artist: Wildfire Manwurrk, Song: “Lonely Bangardi” (2022). Wildfire Manwurrk won the Archie Roach Foundation Award at the 19th National Indigenous Music Awards on 8/12/2023 in Australia. Track 7: Artist: Otyken, Song: “Genesis”. Album: Phenomenon (2023). Otyken is an Indigenous music group from the Siberian region that combines traditional and contemporary musical styles including lyrics and languages. 'Otyken' is a Chulym word for sacred land. https://otyken.ru/?lang=enTrack 8: Artist: The Pretendians, Song: “The 38”. Album: Stories From the Fire (2023). Native American rock band from that calls Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota home. Most bands, however, represent the Oceti Ŝakowiŋ (7 Council Fires) of the Dakhota/Lakhota Nation, hailing from Standing Rock, Rosebud, and Crow Creek tribes. https://www.pretendiansband.com/Track 9: Artist: Blue Mountain Tribe, Song: “Sacred Flowers”. (Single, 2023). https://bluemountaintribe.com/Track 10: Artist: Julian Taylor, Song: “Stolen Lands”. (Single, 2023). https://juliantaylormusic.caTrack 11: Artist: Joe Rainey, Song: ““No Chants”. Album: Niineta (Just Me)” (2022). https://www.roughtrade.com/en-us/product/joe-rainey/niineta-1Track 12: Artist: Eekwol feat. Ila Barker & Boogey the Beat, Song: “Beauty”. Album: TMRWS (2023).Track 13: Artist: Robbie Robertson, Song: “Walk the Beauty Way”. Album: Sinematic (2019). Cayuga/Mohawk Nations. In acknowledgement of his transition on 8/9/2023.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies annually gather on Cole's Hill in Plymouth, MA to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native American peoples do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. In fact, the settler colonial Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native American peoples, the theft of Indigenous traditional homelands, and the erasure of Native American cultures. Participants in the annual National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous peoples’ ancestors, Native American resilience and resistance, and our vitality and adaptability for survival. It is also a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against violent forms of settler colonialism, racism, and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide or across Mother Earth.Today, on American Indian Airwaves, we bring highlights from Indigenous peoples across Mother Earth who spoke at the 54th Annual National Day of Mourning, on November 23, 2023, at colonially what is known as: Cole's Hill (above Plymouth Rock), Plymouth, MA. The annual gathering is organized by the United American Indians of New England (UAINE), http://www.uaine.org/.For the full video and audio source, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR4wLyUYFss
With Lake Mead, Lake Powell, and the Colorado River decades-plus declining water levels with a one-year reprieve last year, and an ever-increasing demand for the water in the living Colorado River over the centuries by the states of California, Nevada, and Arizona, agricultural businesses and other commercial industries, Native American nations have historically been denied their fundamental treaty and human rights when it comes to the source of life: water. Over the century, the United States Supreme Court, certain U.S. Congressional members, and others complicitly engaged in the settler colonial legacy of violence not only against the 30 federally recognized Native American nations related to the living Colorado River, but all life that the “River” sustains since time immemorial. What happens to the living Colorado River between now and 2026 has yet to be determined. In late October of 2023 the U.S Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) released its draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in which they are positioned to move forward with the CA, AZ, & NV states planning to give up about 13% of the water received from the Colorado River through the end of 2026. What comes next is a 45-day public comment period on the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), which is expected to be finalized in early 2024. At stake, however, are the treaty and water rights for 30 federally recognized Nation American nations connected to the living Colorado River which is also a major water supply for 40 million people, seven states, and 5.5 million acres of agriculture.Today on American Indian Airwaves we cover what all this means, particularly for the 30 Native American nations in general, but also, we explore and discuss the complexities of treaty and water rights in Federal Indian Law in relationship to the future of the living Colorado River. Our guest for the hour is an accomplished attorney who has worked with numerous Native American nations and governments for more two decades and he has developed extensive expertise in the area of federal Indian water law, worked on multiple Native American water rights settlements, and has represented clients in adjudications and other water-related proceedings in California, Montana, and Oregon. Guest: Jay Weiner, tribal water attorney for the Quechan Indian Nation (Kwatsáan) located along both sides of the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona; and of counsel at Rosette, LLP; a majority owned Native American Law Firm. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
With 1,272 Buffalo relations killed in 2023 so far in part due to the Yellowstone National Park Service buffalo management practices, the Yellowstone National Park Service just released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Buffalo Management which will be more detrimental to the Buffalo. Moreover, over the years, the Yellowstone National Park Service along with state of Montana, Montana ranchers, and other perpetrators and collaborators, have been complicit in not only failing to protect the remaining genetically pure and original buffalo relations, but these ‘actors’ have been directly and/or indirectly connected to the continuous legacy of taking Buffalo relations lives. In fact, since 1985, 13,958 Buffalo relations have been killed. Our guest for the hour chronicles the work, struggles, and commitment of the Buffalo Field Campaign to protect the remaining genetically pure and original Buffalo relations that call Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding ecosystems across Mother Earth their home. All that and more on today’s American Indian Airwaves program. Guest: James Holt Sr. (Nez Perce Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC).Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Both guests for today’s program chronicle the historical legacies of Indigenous/Latine’ struggles and experiences in the Kumeyaay traditional territories now known as San Diego, CA. Both guests discuss theater, Spanish settler colonialism, the Indigeneity, the dismantling and resistance of Chicano masculinity, the interrelations between the urban population and Indigenous peoples, the importance of culturally based theater and arts, free speech, freedom of artistic expression and more. Lastly, our guests discuss the acknowledgement and celebration at the Teatro at Centro: 52 Years located 2004 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101. The celebration is being held on 10/20/2023 and includes panelists, guest speakers, storytelling, lived experiences and more. Guest:•Felacitas Nunez, Salton Sea Coalition•Kathy Requejo, Community Activist•Teatro at Centro .Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
In the region of the Lacandon forest in Chiapas, Mexico, Indigenous peoples throughout the region continue experiencing even more escalated state-military-cartel violence within systemically and vehement capitalized world. The cartel-state-corporate violence has increased substantially over the past six months and Indigenous peoples are responding. Our guest for today provides an update on numerous critically important issues such Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration supporting major capitalistic megaprojects throughout the region (Maya Train Project, plus more), increased destruction of Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands and the Indigenous peoples themselves, plus our guest articulates how some the largest Cartels are further entrenching their claims through greater violence over the lands and peoples while maintaining the vast inhuman networks of human trafficking, narco trafficking, and trafficking mostly American-based weaponry. All this and more on American Indian Airwaves. Guest:Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
On June 10th, 2022, a Bolivian court sentenced former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, to 10 years in prison. Áñez assumed power during a violent and illegal coup in November 2019 that ousted the country’s popular Indigenous president, Evo Morales, sending him into exile, and killing over 37 people. During Anez’s short term as the illegal president, her government killed dozens of civilians, persecuted members of the Movimiento al Socialismo – Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos or the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MP-ISP) and confronted the Covid-19 pandemic with incompetence and corruption leading to mass starvation in the country’s poorer regions.Today on American Indian Airwaves, we speak with the director of the Andean Information Network, a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes. Katheryn Ledebur joins us to discuss the violent and illegal coup that forcefully ousted the first democratically elected Indigenous president in Bolivia, the United States government’s complicity in directly and indirectly supporting, along with American-based PR firms, the November 2019 coup (Operation Condor 2.0), the role of extractive industries such as the natural gas and lithium industries destabilizing the plurinational nation of Bolivia, plus more, and what it means for the plurinational state of Bolivia and the 24 Indigenous nations and communities within. Guest:Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network (http://ain-bolivia.org/), a human rights organization based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and writes extensively on drug policy and human rights in the Andes.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Thursday, 8/31/2023, on American Indian Airwaves on KPFK, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)“The Living Histories of Lahaina and Self Determination for Hawaiian Nation and Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush”Part 1:The living histories of Lahaina are told through the intergenerational means of passing traditional stories, songs, language, and life from one Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) generation to the next. Despite the media, national, and international attention on the recent August 8th, 2023, deadly Lahaina fire, many critical questions and concerns are missing from various media reports about the self-determination of the Hawaiian nation in recovery and healing from the violence stemming from United States militarization, the illegal over through of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, corporatizing the land and water for tourism, plus more. Through the settler colonial history of what is called Lahaina, the Kanaka Maoli are resilient in survivance and now more than ever are organized in working to ensure that decolonization and healing takes place as part of the recovery from the Lahaina fire. Tune in today on American Indian Airwaves to hear enriching, important, and real stories from a Kanaka Maoli perspective on the living histories of “Lahaina,” Maui, and the Hawaiian nation, plus more. Guest:•Kepā Maly, Cultural Ethnographer - Resource Specialist of Kumu Pono Associates LLC (https://www.kumupono.com/). Kepā was raised on the islands of O’ahu and Lanaʻi. While growing up on Lānaʻi, Kepā was taught the Hawaiian language and cultural practices and values by kūpuna (elders). Kūpuna spoke of, and practiced many aspects of Hawaiian culture, including land and ocean management practices, mele and hula (chants and dances), material culture, traditions, and ethnobotany. Part 2:The long legacy of settler colonial violence against California Indigenous nations, the lands, waters, and more continues in northern California where the informal and formal cannabis industry is harming the Peoples, lands, waters, and more. The Cannabis industry is just one industry out many contributing to systemic forms of colonial violence. Tune in today on American Indian Airwaves to the author of a new published book titled Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (2023). The book is the first to cover the environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation in California by foregrounding Indigenous voices, experiences, and histories. It’s not intended as an expose of cannabis growers, but rather meant to inform the path toward an alternative future, one that starts with the return of land to Indigenous stewardship and a rejection of the commodification and control of nature for profit.Guest:Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida), Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal-Poly, Humboldt and the author of the newly published book: Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (2023).Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Financially support KPFK by visiting KPFK.org and pledging a dollar amount or call 818-985-5835 (KPFK) to support.
On August 8th, 2023, a deadly fire swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, destroying nearly everything in its path. The number of lives taken has reached at least 115 as of 8/22/2023, more than 800 people are still missing, and more than 2,000 structures were destroyed. Eight hours before a deadly fire swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, a small brush fire broke out on the edge of a residential neighborhood approximately a mile away from the town’s historic waterfront. While the fire was contained, and kept away from nearby homes, it is suspected that hurricane-force gusts helped reignite the fire. Lahaina, or by its original place name: Malu’ulu o Lele (Ma la ulu o lele) means the “land of the flying breadfruit” became Lahaina when colonists eradicated this traditional food and replaced it with sugar cane plantations. This scared place to the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, the Naka moli, is rich in cultural traditions and history kept alive through generations. The Lahaina fire destroyed more than the settler colonist homes, business, tourism, but it is the violence of settler colonial, its legacy in Hawaii, and the climate crises that has cause so much additional trauma to people, the land, water, and life throughout the area.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, our guest for the hour is a well-known international photographer, professional writer, an accomplished journalist, and cinematographer. His family lived on the Big Island of Hawaii and one his ancestors is Kaloni o’ Pue ew, a chief of a large portion of Maui precolonization.
Guest: David Pu’u (https://davidpuu.com), photographer, cinematographer and Writer with broad experience ranging from editorial publication to television and feature film production.
Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp
American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
One day before International Indigenous Peoples Day, President Joe Biden created on August 8th, 2023, a new national monument in Arizona covering close to a million acres of lands surrounding the Grand Canyon important and scared to nearby Native American nations. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument) is the fifth designated monument by Biden in the past 10 months, and the new monument prohibits new uranium mining claims in the region.
The legacy of Nuclear Colonialism, which is includes over a century of uranium mining, and its impacts on Native American nations, peoples, and Mother Earth remains a highly censored in the American mass and digital media. Despite the recent media attention of the film Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan) released on July 21st, 2023, in the United States and August 6th, 2023, marking the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima wherein 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, Native Americans and settler colonial violence are absent from these stories and the American public consciousness.
Guest: Ian Zabarte (Newe Sogobia [Western Shoshone] Nation), is a long-time Indigenous activist who worked tirelessly to stop the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository in Western Shoshone Treaty lands (also known as the state of Nevada). He is also a board member of the Native Community Action Council (NCAC), works on numerous anti-nuclear colonialism projects, and is featured in 2023 documentary Downwind, the story about Mercury, Nevada in heart of the Western Shoshone nation, becoming the testing site of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992.
Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp
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American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, a renewed effort towards seeking freedom for international, political Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier, who since 1977 wrongfully continues serving two consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary despite ongoing severe health issues, plus more here on American Indian Airwaves.
Leonard Peltier is from the Anishnaabe and Lakota Nations and was unjustly convicted in 1977 for aiding and abetting in the deaths of two FBI agents in a June 26, 1975. The shootout happened on the Pine Ridge reservation in Oglala County, SD and was between the FBI and members of the American Indian Movement who were defending the Oglala community at their request. Three American Indian Movement activist were charged at the time including Leonard Peltier, yet the two other co-defendants, Robert Robideau and Darrelle “Dino” Butler were acquitted by reason of self-defense.
Peltier was later extradited from Canada under questionable circumstances was tried separately and his trial was replete with prosecutorial misconduct, falsified testimony, fabricated evidence, and even the autopsy presented to the jury was done by an examiner who had never seen the bodies of the two agents, plus more.
Our guests for the hour are Our other guest is Mia Feroleta is the publisher of New Observations Magazine and recently served as the authorized representative of the Oglala Sioux nation is helping negotiate the repatriation of 131 ancestors, cultural patrimony, and sacred items that were stolen from the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.
Guests: Paullette Dauteuil-Robideau, former Co-chair (2010-2012) of International Leonard Pelteir Defense Committee (ILPDC), was the National Secretary (2012-2014) of the National Jericho movement, is a board member of the ad hoc committee to Free Leonard Peltier Now! campaign, and the former wife/companion of A.I.M. activist Robert Robideau. https://www.freeleonardpeltiernow.org
Mia Feroleta is the publisher of New Observations magazine. Last year, Mia served as the authorized representative of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and negotiated the return of 131 artifacts stolen from the Wounded Knee Massacre site. They had been held in the collection of a small library/museum in Barre, Massachusetts for over 100 years. New Observations published an entire issue on Wounded Knee. New Observations latest issue is dedicated to political prisoners including Leonard Peltier. Mai also serves as a member of the board of Leonard's Ad Hoc Committee.
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American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Part 1:In the United States, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Native American peoples experience higher rates of violence than any other demographic. In fact, Native American women and girls are disproportionately affected by the violence. For example, a 2016 study by the National Institute of Justice estimated that 84 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. There are 23 locations determined to be “hot spots” for MMIW cases, five of which are identified as being of the highest priority for intervention due to their disproportionately high rates of MMIW cases. While numerous cases are related to the United States extractive industries, such as gas and oil, and “man camps,” our guest for today shares her family’s experiences regarding the murder of Nicole Smith (Coastal Pomo Nation), horizontal violence against MMIWS2+ peoples within the Coastal Pomo nation, and the complicities of the Mendocino County Sheriff and the United States federal government’s in failure to investigate and bring justice for Nicole Smith, Bernadette Antoinette Smith, the Smith family, and the Coastal Pomo nation located in what is known as Mendocino County, California. Guest: Bernadette Antoinette Smith (Coastal Pomo), Culture Resource Specialist of the Coastal Pomo nation), Board Member, Xa Kako Dile (https://www.xakakodile.org/), Indigenous women-led organization; Environmental-Social Justice Activist; Language-Culture Revivalist. Justice for Nicole Smith Hashtag #JusticeforNicole SmithPart 2:In Chiapas, Mexico, Indigenous peoples throughout the region continue experiencing escalated state-military-cartel violence within systemically and vehement capitalized world. Our guests for today provides an update on numerous critically important issues such Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issuing executive orders greenlight major capitalistic megaprojects throughout the region (Maya Train Project, plus more), increased destruction of Mayan peoples’ traditional homelands, the Cartels, and the Mexican states collaborative violence, as well as Mexico’ judicial systems complicities in oppressing Indigenous land defenders, plus more. Guest:Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
During the Red Power Movement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as part of its COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), actively surveilled, infiltrated, and attempted to neutralize Native American activists and the American Indian Movement (AIM). With the establishment of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Indian Movement in Box Canyon, Ventura County, CA back in mid-1970s, the FBI infiltrated the Los Angeles chapter of AIM with agent provocateurs and wrongfully framed mid-level AIM activist Paul Durant Skyhorse (Anishinaabe Nation) and Richard Billings Mohawk (Tuscarora-Mohawk Nations) for the October 10th, 1974, murder of cab-driver George Aird. Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk were arrested and what became known as the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial lasted 3½ years, cost California taxpayers $1.25 million, and both Native American peoples were incarcerated the entire time before their acquittal by a California jury on May 24th, 1978. Our guest for today is a long-time activist who was pivotal, instrumental, and critical in defending against various forms of injustice, including his participation in the Skyhorse Mohawk trial. As old state “agents” are starting to publically speak and publish stories about what allegedly happened, today’s guest shares with listeners his lived experiences and participation in the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial and tell us what actually happened during the turbulent times of the state violence in silencing dissent, plus more. •Guest: oMoses Mora, long-time activist, organizer, and for past 50 years he has been part of the various grassroots movements including the American Indian Movement, environmental movement, Chicano movement. In addition, Mora was a first-hand participant in the Skyhorse-Mohawk trial. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Over the past several months under the Biden Administration, several fossil fuel mega projects or “carbon bombs” have been approved with a mega gold mining project currently under proposal and in opposition by numerous Alaska Native organizations, communities, and nations.For instance, on March 13th, 2023, the U.S. Interior Department approved the ConocoPhillips $8 billion Willow oil and gas drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, which will produce a peak of 180,000 barrels of oil per day, roughly 40 percent of all current daily production in Alaska. In addition, on April 13th, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy approved the $39 billion Alaska Gasline Development Corp’s (AGDC) project to export Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to countries the United States does not have free trade agreements with, mainly in Asia. Backers of the project expect it to be operational by 2030 if it receives the required permits. Alaska LNG includes a liquefaction facility on the Kenai peninsula in southern Alaska and the proposed 807-mile pipeline will transport gas in northern Alaska across the state.While the Biden Administration contends these mega projects are a matter of economic and national security, the proposed Donlin gold mine project is along the salmon-bearing tributary of the Kuskokwim River in Alaska and threatens several Alaska Native families, communities, and nations traditional ways of life. The company Donlin Gold, LLC is owned by Barrick Gold and NovaGold corporations and it has proposed an open pit mine, measuring up to 2.2 miles long and 1 mile wide in YK Delta. Donlin Gold’s proposed open mine is projected to have a 27-year life span that will result in mining about 1.5 million ounces of gold per year, destroying land and life throughout the region, storing over 3 billion tons of waste rock mine tailings in an artificial pond behind a large earthen dam (460 feet high and 5,800 feet long). Our guest for the hour discusses how the recent mega projects will harm Mother Earth, the proposed Donlin Gold Mine Project and its implications for life, the extractive industries in Alaska, and the overall complexities of the Alaska Native Settlement Claims Act of 1971 that shape a very complex and dynamic terrain for Alaska Native peoples, communities, and nations, and more. •Guest: oAnaan’arar Sophie Swope is Cup’ik, a community organizer at Native Movement (https://www.nativemovement.org), and the director for the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/MotherKuskokwim/), an organization dedicated to fighting against the Donlin Gold Mine Project and protecting the traditional territories of Alaska Native peoples throughout Materilluk (Bethel, AK) region. No Donlin Gold (https://nodonlingold.org/).Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. On today’s program, we here from the panelists who participated in UNPFII side event titled “Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions” on 4/20/2023. The panel focuses on Indigenous Peoples resisting land grabs driven by extractive industries, human rights violations, and Indigenous environmental defenders resisting false solutions known as: carbon markets, cap and trade, emission trading, carbon offsets, environmental and ecological services and the rebranding of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to earth-based solutions. The UNPFII side event was sponsored and organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).Guests: Tom Goldtooth (Dine’/Lakota Nations), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and moderator. Panelist speakers are (in order): Tamra Gilbertson, Policy Advisor and Education Coordinator for the IEN;Shyrlene Oliveira da Silva Huni Kui; Thomas Joseph (Hoopa Nation), Carbon Policy Educator with IEN, and Alberto Saldamando (Xicano/Zapoteca), Lawyer Advocate with IEN. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
”United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 22nd Session: 17-28 April 2023 Highlights on Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. Here, Indigenous peoples express their grievances at the most well-known international political body (i.e., the United Nations) even though after 100 years of existence between the League of Nations and the United Nations, Indigenous peoples’ rights continue to be ignored, violated, and threatened. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.On today’s program we hear testimonies from Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island regarding a wide range of struggles and issues. The Indigenous testimonies are from the April 18th and April 19th, 2023, sessions only. Revealing, powerful, and shameful for the nation-states across Mother Earth knowingly, willfully, and complicitly are committing acts of genocides. The voices of Indigenous peoples and organizations, along with the intervention by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are highlighted and can be heard throughout the hour. If you like what you hear, then support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00.Guests: •Terry Rambler, Chairman of the San Carlos Apache – Protecting Chi'chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat).•Sami Youth Representative, Suoma Sámi Nuorat (Finland, Sweden, and Norway) on the Greenwashing the Green Economy and Protecting Mother Earth.•Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Intervention. Report on the Intervention of Protecting Mother Earth. English Translation. •Representative of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus on Protecting Mother Earth, Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Survivance, more.•Representative of Society of Threatened Peoples on the Mongolian Genocide committed by the Chinese Government.•Nathan Phillips (Omaha Nation) on Language, Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Incarceration and Human Rights Violations, Survivance, and Survivance.•Delegation, Crimean Tartar, from the Crimean Tartar Resource Center on the Crimean Genocide committed by Russia. •Ryukyuan delegation on the United States militarization of the surrounding southern Japanese prefectures constructing military bases, poisoning lands, illegally removing Indigenous ancestors, and more. •Rodrigo Eduardo Paillalef (Puma Mapuche Nation) on Protecting Cultures, Intellectual Property Rights, and the 100-year legacy of the League of Nations and the United Nations denying Indigenous peoples and nations their rights.•Addie Parker, Shoshone-Paiute Shoshone of the Duck Valley Nation (NV), the “Green Gold Rush” and Lithium companies’ expansion, the extractive industries, and Protecting Traditional Homelands.American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
On today’s program we report on the disappearance of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, the impunity of perpetrators committing crimes against Indigenous, how some self-defense groups are criminalized, and the response by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). In Mexico, and since the January, several Indigenous defenders of land, territory, and the environment are disappearing while the state and local authorities have demonstrated interest in conducting real investigations, including that of well-known, Santos de la Cruz Carrillo, Wixárika land defender an attorney. In addition, and simultaneously, the perpetrators of crimes against Indigenous are peoples are acting with impunity while Indigenous peoples are falsely being charged of criminal activities. In response, some self-defense groups such as In Pantelhó, in the highlands of Chiapas, a new armed group has emerged to confront Los Machetes, who began as an Indigenous self-defense group but have degenerated into a criminal band. When the government fails to provide security or actively collaborates with violent criminal organizations, it sometimes leads Indigenous communities to form their own armed groups out of desperation, but this rarely ends well. Lastly, we get an update on the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held a national assembly in Tehuacan, Puebla on 4-5 March 2023 and their responses to resisting several megaprojects adversely impacting Indigenous peoples and the increased violence directed against Indigenous defenders of land and territory.Thereafter, some preliminary analysis of the Vatican’s 3/30/2023 statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery. Support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00.Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.
2023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Wounded Knee which is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee, Lakota Nation (South Dakota) for 71 days from February 27th, 1973, to May 8th, 1973. The Occupation of Wounded Knee was in response to a call to action for help from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and Treaty of Fort Laramie rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Native American and United States government officials. The Wounded Knee Occupation resulted in a 71-day military standoff with U.S. government officials – the largest military attack in United States history, and quickly drew domestic and international support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s guest grew up and lives in the Yurok Nation (Northern California). He is a longtime activist, fisherperson, plus more and he joins us for the entire hour to share his lived experiences in the Yurok Nation during the reign of terror in the 1960s and 1970s and how he arrived at and participated in the Occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. Join us for in-depth, personal and enriching story on the parallels between the militarization of settler colonial state violence and oppression during the “Fishing Wars” in the Yurok Nation to at Wound Knee Occupation of 1973, plus more. Guest: Willard Carlson, Yurok Nation, activist, fisherperson, parent, and so much more. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Part 1The Apache Stronghold with Indigenous allies and US and international supporters have tirelessly been working to stop a nearly eight-year-long process to exchange Oak Flat, a 2,200-acre site in Tonto National Forest, to Resolution Cooper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP, which plans to construct one of the largest cooper and ore mining pits in the world. The mining project would not only and permanently destroy the active cultural and sacred site that would result in compounded and contributory forms of genocide towards many Native American nations, but once complete the mining project is completed, it would leave 1,000-foot-deep crater over 2 miles across and use enough water to supply a city of 140,000 annually for its estimated life. In 2015 when the United States congress passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it included the rider: The Southeastern Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act 2014 (“Act”) authorizing the United State Forest Service to exchange lands to Resolution Cooper. Since 2015, the Apache Stronghold along with allies have been the forefront at trying to stop the land exchange including legally challenging the US government.We begin today’s interview with Lian Bighorse and Vanessa Nosie, of the Apache Stronghold on the Spiritual Convoy to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which concludes on the court date of March 21st, 2023, in Pasadena, CA where the “Court” could rule that the Oak Flat Land Exchange Act of 2014 is illegal and therefore prevent the proposed construction of Resolution Cooper’s proposed copper and ore open-pit mine. Guests: Lian Bighorse and Vanessa Nosie, Native American activists, plus more, of the Apache Stronghold. Website: Apache-Stronghold, click here. (http://apache-stronghold.com/)Facebook, click here. (https://www.facebook.com/SaveOakFlatArizona/) Linktree, click here (https://linktr.ee/saveoakflat) Part 22023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Wounded Knee which is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee, Lakota Nation (South Dakota) for 71 days from February 27th, 1973, to May 8th, 1973. The Occupation of Wounded Knee was in response to a call to action for help from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and Treaty of Fort Laramie rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Native American and United States government officials. The Wounded Knee Occupation resulted in a 71-day military standoff with U.S. government officials – the largest military attack in United States history, and quickly drew domestic and international support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s guest was a rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the entire occupation of Wounded Knee in the Lakota Nation (South Dakota) in 1973. Under a United States government media blackout prohibiting journalists to enter Wounded Knee, our guest managed to enter Wounded Knee where he spent the entire 71 days interviewing Native American activists, participating in community gatherings, and documenting what happened inside of Wounded Knee as well as recording the corrupt and militarized actions of the Guardians of the Oglala Nation (GOONs), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and other government agencies actions. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
2023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Wounded Knee which is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee, Lakota Nation (South Dakota) for 71 days from February 27th, 1973, to May 8th, 1973. The Occupation of Wounded Knee was in response to a call to action for help from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and Treaty of Fort Laramie rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Native American and United States government officials. The Wounded Knee Occupation resulted in a 71-day military standoff with U.S. government officials – the largest military attack in United States history, and quickly drew domestic and international support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s guest was a rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the entire occupation of Wounded Knee in the Lakota Nation (South Dakota) in 1973. Under a United States government media blackout prohibiting journalists to enter Wounded Knee, our guest managed to enter Wounded Knee where he spent the entire 71 days interviewing Native American activists, participating in community gatherings, and documenting what happened inside of Wounded Knee as well as recording the corrupt and militarized actions of the Guardians of the Oglala Nation (GOONs), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and other government agencies actions. Join us today on American Indian Airwaves for the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Wounded Knee to hear Kevin McKiernan’s personal accounts and experiences during the 71-day military standoff between members of the American Indian Movement and Native American activists and the United States government, plus more. Guest: Kevin McKiernan, director of New Customer From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey (2019).Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Support KPFK and pick up the book at www.kpfk.orgWhen Mexico moved to abolish slavery, Texas seceded in 1836-in a replay of 1776-- in order to perpetuate enslavement of Africans forevermore. Until 1845 Texas was an independent nation and moved to challenge the U.S. for leadership in the odious commerce of the African Slave Trade: Texas also competed vigorously with the U.S. in the dirty business, dispossessing Indigenous peoples and nations of their lands and denuding Mexico by snatching California in the race to the Pacific and domination of the vaunted China market. But Texas could not withstand pressure from abolitionist Mexico and revolutionary Haiti and joined the U.S. as a state-under questionable legal procedures-in 1845. Thereafter Texas' enslaved population increased exponentially along with land grabs targeting Comanches, Caddo and Kiowa-and other Indigenous nations-leading to staggeringly violent bloodshed.Black troops helped to foil this deviltry but, alas, during the Reconstruction era-1865-1876-these same soldiers were at the tip of the spear as Indigenes were being pounded in West Texas as Black people were being pounded by the Ku Klux Klan in East Texas. Texans were also in the vanguard during the scandalous 6 January 2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill and promises to be in the forefront as a unique U.S. fascism seeks to rise. Join us today on American Indian Airwaves to hear Dr. Gerald Horne highlight important excerpts from his book, The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S Fascism, and how it relates to the international geopolitical forms of settler colonial violence impacting Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and more and the formation and roots of American fascism, plus more. Guest: Dr. Gerald Horne is an eminent historian who is Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. An author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews, his research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, war and the film industry.Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Part 1Nuclear Colonialism with Leona Morgan (Dine’ Nation) is a three-part interview that will broadcast over three consecutive episodes of American Indian Airwaves. The series focuses on our guest’s community work since 2007, which includes combatting against many aspects of nuclear colonialism. Today’s program concludes are three-part interview on Nuclear Colonialism. In this episode, our guest covers several important issues such as working at the grassroots level and activism, addressing activist “burnout,” the complications and frustrations working with non-Indigenous peoples in allyship, and moving forward on the denuclearization of Turtle Island, plus more. Nuclear Colonial is one aspect of settler colonialism that remains highly censored in the American mass and digital media landscape. With approximately 11% of all abandon uranium mines located in “Indian Country,” Nuclear power plants average life-span ranging from 40 to 50 years, the promotion of nuclear power as “green energy,” the United States Department of Defense endorsing the next generation of mini-nuclear power plants (small modular reactors) to over 800 military bases throughout the world, the allocation of $1.7 trillion to reconstitute the U.S. nuclear weaponry system, and the permanent, unresolved, and enduring issue of addressing over 60 years of nuclear waste production, Native American nations continue to be on the frontlines of nuclear colonialism and future generations are at risk unless there is an immediate nuclear decolonialization across Mother Earth.Guest: Leona Morgan (Tó dich’íí’nii, Tsé nahabiłnii, Kiyaa’áanii, Tó aheedlíinii; she/her) is a Diné activist and community organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. Leona Morgan co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group www.fb.com/NuclearIssuesStudyGroup), Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative (www.fb.com/HaulNo), and Radiation Monitoring Project (www.radmonitoring.org). Our guest collaborates nationally with many groups to address the entire nuclear fuel chain in the United States and is part of the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate (www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org) that focuses on nuclear energy as a global climate issue. Part 2Mother Earth is wounded and everything she sustains is also afflicted by more pernicious forms of settler colonial violence. In additional, global current events, the possibilities of nuclear war and/or nuclear fallout, economic devastation, the unaffordability to survive for 99% of the world’s population, extreme declines in biodiversity, and the world’s Indigenous peoples on the frontlines of the intergenerational tyranny of settler colonialism, places the future of all life in an uncertain situations that requires an immediate global change for peacefully healing Mother Earth. Meanwhile, the Montana state legislature is moving forward with plans to vote on legislation that would violate numerous treaties and “terminate” Native American nations within the state of Montana. Our guest for second half of today’s program address all these critical issues, plus more. Guest: Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Lakota Nation), 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, speaks of the forthcoming February 4th & 5th, 2023, Woope Omnic’iye (Spiritual Law Meeting) at Dakota Magic (Sesseton Wahpeton Oyate) Nation and peacefully healing Mother Earth, plus more. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Nuclear Colonial is one aspect of settler colonialism that remains highly censored in the American mass and digital media landscape. With approximately 11% of all abandon uranium mines located in “Indian Country,” Nuclear power plants average life-span ranging from 40 to 50 years, the promotion of nuclear power as “green energy,” the United States Department of Defense endorsing the next generation of mini-nuclear power plants (small modular reactors) to over 800 military bases throughout the world, the allocation of $1.7 trillion to reconstitute the U.S. nuclear weaponry system, and the permanent, unresolved, and enduring issue of addressing over 60 years of nuclear waste production, Native American nations continue to be on the frontlines of nuclear colonialism and future generations are at risk unless there is an immediate nuclear decolonization across Mother Earth.Nuclear Colonialism with Leona Morgan (Dine’ Nation) is a three-part interview that will broadcast over three consecutive episodes of American Indian Airwaves. The series focuses on our guest’s community work since 2007, which includes combating against many aspects of nuclear colonialism. Our guest not only helped prevent the construction of a new ISL (in situ leach) uranium mine in Eastern Navajo, but also, she has and continues to raise awareness about the extreme dangers of transporting high-level radioactive waste material by highway and railroad nearby and through “Indian Country,” as well as the continuing legacy of uranium mining and its unresolved impacts on the Dine’ people and other Indigenous peoples and nations. In addition, Leona Morgan provides an extensive update on the unresolved issue of nuclear waste and how Holtec International is proposing to construct a high-level nuclear waste facility in southeastern New Mexico despite the opposition by numerous Native American nations. Guest Leona Morgan (Tó dich’íí’nii, Tsé nahabiłnii, Kiyaa’áanii, Tó aheedlíinii; she/her) is a Diné activist and community organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. Leona Morgan co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group www.fb.com/NuclearIssuesStudyGroup), Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative (www.fb.com/HaulNo), and Radiation Monitoring Project (www.radmonitoring.org). Our guest collaborates nationally with many groups to address the entire nuclear fuel chain in the United States and is part of the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate (www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org) that focuses on nuclear energy as a global climate issue. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Part 1 Nuclear Colonialism with Leona Morgan (Dine’ Nation) is a three-part interview broadcasting over three consecutive episodes. The series focuses on our guest’s community work since 2007, which includes combating against many aspects of nuclear colonialism. Our guest not only helped prevent the construction of a new ISL (in situ leach) uranium mine in Eastern Navajo, but also, she has and continues to raise awareness about the extreme dangers of transporting high-level radioactive waste material by highway and railroad nearby & through “Indian Country,” along with the negative legacy of uranium mining & its unresolved impacts on the Dine’ & other Indigenous peoples. In addition, Leona Morgan provides an update on the unresolved issue of nuclear waste & how Holtec International is proposing to construct a high-level nuclear waste facility in southeastern New Mexico despite the opposition by numerous Native American nations. Moreover, our guest discusses: the Nuclear Energy industry's plans to build Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – mini nuclear reactors - as a way to generate electricity' how the Nuclear Energy’s Greenwashing strategy of claiming nuclear energy as green energy places Indigenous peoples and Mother Earth at historical perils; the $1.7 trillion allocated for the US nuclear weaponry arsenal, and how Native Americans & nations future generations are at risk unless there is an immediate nuclear decolonialization.Guest Leona Morgan (Tó dich’íí’nii, Tsé nahabiłnii, Kiyaa’áanii, Tó aheedlíinii) is a Diné activist and community organizer. Leona co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group , Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative, and Radiation Monitoring Project. Our guest collaborates nationally with many groups and is part of the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate that focuses on nuclear energy as a global climate issue. Part 2 In early 2023, only five Native American nations have constitutionally protected press freedoms. In terms of Native American self-determination and sovereignty, what does freedom of the press mean for Native American nations? What about Native American government owned media and the right to investigate & publish critical stories without being penalized? "Bad Press" is a new documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023 and the film tells the story about Angel Ellis just trying to do her job. She’s a reporter for Mvskoke Media in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and she wants to give her readers access to all the information relevant to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. But that’s not an easy task, given that Angel and her colleagues believe in truth and transparency and aren't afraid to challenge the integrity of some questionable tribal officials. Fast-forward to a confusing whirlwind of an emergency session at the National Council, where the 2015 Free Press Act is repealed, Mvskoke Media's independent editorial board is dissolved, and the newspaper is placed under the direction of the Secretary of the Nation and Commerce. Plus more. For more information about viewing the documentary in person or online, see the Sundance Film Festival website (https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/638a1ffad406b20f68f2e3f2).Guests Becca Landsberry-Bakker (Muscogee Nation) and Joe Peeler co-directors of Bad Press (2023). Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, Ford Foundation JustFilms grantee, and 2022 NBC Original Voices fellow. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the executive director of the Native American Journalists Association. Joe Peeler is a documentary editor and director whose work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, and FX. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA from 7:00pm to 8:00pm on Thursdays.
Colonial Denial of Indigenous Migrant Asylees and Refugees Rights and State-Sponsored Terrorism along the U.S.-Mexico Colonial Border and the South”Recent American mass media coverage of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico colonial border continuously censor, erase, and ignore the harsh experiences of migrating Indigenous peoples legally seeking asylum or refugee status within the political defined borders of the United States. Not only are migrating Indigenous peoples escaping often times torturous and threatening conditions in their home countries, but also they frequently endure more compounded human rights abuses traveling through Mexico, along with U.S.-Mexico settler colonial border, and within the United States. Our guest for the hour provides extensive and in-depth analysis and update on the recent interrelated events regarding Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples seeking either asylum or refugee status migrating into the United States along the U.S-Mexico and the south. In addition, our guest warns how the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)-Biden meetings – as part of the North American Leaders Summit held on 1/9 and 1/10/2023 in Mexico City - signal a red flag for Indigenous land and water protectors and he discusses the continuance of the U.S. federal Title 42 program permitting the deportation of recent migrants negatively impacting Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples held by US DHS Customs and Border Protection. Lastly, our guest chronicles the human rights abuses in some detention centers, outlines the struggles of humanitarian relief efforts, and informs listeners of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States government and other nation-state governments against migrating (non) Indigenous peoples, plus more. Guest:Dr. Roberto D. Hernandez, Associate Professor, Chicana & Chicano Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU). He is an actively engaged, community-b¬ased researcher, scholar, teacher, writer, and activist. Dr. Hernández’ research, publications, and teaching focus on the intersections of colonial and border violence, the geopolitics of knowledge and cultural production, decolonial political theory, social movements, hemispheric indigeneity, masculinity and comparative border studies. He co-edited the anthology Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without and is the author of Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative (Univ. of AZ Press, 2018).Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
With approximately 6,000 remaining non-domesticated buffalo relations, a severe tragedy occurred on December 29th, 2022, when a semi-truck, on HWY 191 in West Yellowstone, Montana, took the lives of 13 bison and yearlings. Despite the legal speed limit on HWY 191, the semi-truck was traveling too fast to stop in time before colliding into the buffalo family. For years, Montana has refused to lower the speed limit in accordance with scientific recommendations and the Buffalo Field Campaign, Native American nations and allies are calling for the construction of ecological corridors over the highway as a remedy to prevent future accidents and the taking of animal relations lives. Had there been an ecological corridor over the highway near the Madison River crossing to Horse Butte, Montana, - a popular migratory pattern of the buffalo – the accident could have been prevented. In addition to this recent tragedy, hunters throughout the state of Montana in the past have escalated the taking of non-domesticated buffalo relations lives. In other words, more buffalo relations lives were taken in 2022 than in 2021. Guest:Our guest, Tom Woodbury, Communications Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign joins us for the hour in this two-part interview and provides listeners with update on the work of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the recent tragedy, the call to action of for creating an ecological corridor over HWY 191, the Buffalo Treaty between Native American nations, and more. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is a volunteer collective and public affairs Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
Track ListingTrack 1: Archie Roach, Song: “Spiritual Love”. Album: Let Love Rule (2016): https://www.archieroach.com/Track 2: Samantha Crain, Song: “Reunion”. Album: A Small Death (2020): https://www.samanthacrain.com/Track 3: Opliam, Song: “Land Back”. Album: All Roads Are Good (2022): https://opliammusic.com/Track 4: Gary Farmer & the Troublemakers, Song: “Go Go Go”. Album: Road Songs (2022).Track 5: Tanya Tagaq, Song: “Colonizer”. Album: Tongues (2022): https://www.tanyatagaq.com/Track 6: Otykem, Song: “Storm”. Album: released as a single (2022): https://otyken.ru/Track 7: Innastate, Song: “Sailing”. Album: Verde (2018): https://www.innastate.net/Track 8: Doc featuring Spencer Battiest, Song: “The Storm”. Single (2011)Track 9: Frank Waln, Song: “Bad Medicine”. Single (2022): http://frankwaln.comTrack 10: Black Belt Eagle Scout, Song: “My Blood Runs Through This Land”. Album: The Land, The Water, The Sky (2022): https://www.blackbelteaglescout.com/Track 11: Supaman feat. Ashley Hall, Song: “I Hope You Know” (2022): https://www.supamanhiphop.net/Track 12: Digging Roots, Song: “Skoden”. Album: Zhawenim (2022): https://www.diggingrootsmusic.com/Track 13: Beatrice Deer Band, Song, “Cannibal”. Album: Shifting (2021): https://beatricedeerband.com/Track 14: Archie Roach, Song: “Native Born”. Album Charcoal Lane (1990): https://www.archieroach.com/Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
December 29th of every year marks another anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopped Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge in what is now known as South Dakota. The Would Knee Massacre took place near the Wounded Knee Creek during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American traditions and ceremonies. Shortly thereafter the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued which resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over 300 Indigenous women, children, and men. The Occupation of Wounded Knee from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973 is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee (Lakota Nation) in response to a call to action from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and treaty rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Indigenous and United States government officials. The Wound Knee Occupation resulted in a 67-day military standoff with U.S. government officials and quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.Today’s show on American Indian Airwaves is comprised of sound from two principal sources: The Pacifica Radio archives and the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. The Pacifica Radio Archives include original reports from Pacifica’s-affiliate station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA which covered live the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. In addition, sound from the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 includes reflective testimonies of the Wound Knee Indigenous activist such as Lenny Foster, Bill Means, Madonna Thunderhawk, and narrated by the late Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, plus more.American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays 11am-12pm); and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswampAmerican Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more.
Part: 1The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice, organized by the American Indian Movement’s Grand Governing Council (AIMGGC), began on September 1st, 2022, from Minneapolis, and concluded 1,100 miles later, on November 13th, 2022, in Washington D.C. with approximately 2,000 supporters showing up in support of demanding President Biden issue an immediate executive clemency for international and Indigenous political Prisoner Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier was convicted in 1977 for aiding and abetting the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in June 1975 and he was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and has been incarcerated for more than 47 years. In 1993, he became eligible for parole and on January 28, 2022, he tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) virus at the United States Penitentiary at Coleman, FL (USP Coleman 1). Moreover, Peltier's family says he continues to struggle with diabetes, hypertension, partial blindness from a stroke and an abdominal aortic aneurysm and he is presently at the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman’s high-security facility. Supporters of executive clement for Leonard Peltier can call the White House at (202) 456-1111 and/or submit comments at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/Guest:•Kathy Peltier, the youngest daughter of Leonard Peltier, joins us for part one of today’s program for an update based on her participation in The Leonard Peltier: Walk to Justice, provides listeners update of Leonard Peltier’s health conditions, as well as the international efforts taken by her and others seeking United States President Joe Biden to grant an immediate and compassionate executive clemency for international and Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Part: 2Throughout the entire month of November 2022, their was an extreme rise in the number of Indigenous peoples being murdered throughout the southeastern part of Mexico, including the state of Chiapas and Guerrero, by both the Mexican-state’s National Guard and Cartel’s competing for territory and dominance in illegal actives such as narco-trafficking, gun smuggling, human trafficking, and more. The Mexican-state and Cartel violence has not only increased but has taken on new forms that further jeopardized the lives of Indigenous peoples throughout the region and elsewhere. Our guest for the second part of today’s program provides listeners an important update on the escalated and new forms of violence perpetuated against Indigenous peoples and in violence of their human rights. Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays 11am-12pm); and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.
Part: 1 Kawisente McGregor and Melody Talcott joins us to discussing the demystification and deconstruction of the violent settler colonial holiday, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and what is means to give thanks from cultural perspectives.
Guests: • Kawisente McGregor, Kanien’kehá:ka (People of the Spark or Flint), meaning ‘Icicle Melting’ is a long-time supporter of nature connection programs on the native reserve she calls home, Kahnawake (meaning – by the rapids), a mother of two and an avid supporter of social and native justice issues, the site director for Coyote Programs’ camp in Kahnawake, and a regular visitor to the youth and adult programs.
• Melody Talcott (Seneca, Cherokee and Patawomeck descent) graduated from Cambridge University and has worked to support Indigenous ceremonial leaders, such as Donna Augustine (Mik’maq), in repatriation and traditional ways of life. She is a member of an international effort on Indigenous repatriation and assisted with the organization of an international conference on ceremonial leaders at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2018, with Diane Longboat (Mohawk). She is an author and runs a business with her family in Maine and dedicates her time to the continuance of traditional ways of life.
Part: 2 Donna Augustine (Mi’KMaq Nation) joins us in the second half of today’s program as part of our continuing conversation on the demystification and deconstruction of the violent settler colonial holiday, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and what is means to give thanks from a Mi'kmaq perspective.
Guest: • Donna Augustine “Thunderbird Turtle Woman” is a Cultural Educator and a Ceremonial Leader. She has been involved with reclaiming the Traditional Ways of her people since the age of twenty-three. Her main work is on Repatriation; reclaiming and reburying ancestors, burial items and Sacred Objects from museums and institutions throughout Canada, the U.S. and now Internationally. Her current writings will be featured as a chapter in a book on International Repatriation that will be read internationally. She is acknowledged as a spiritual leader of her own People, but she is regularly invited by other tribes of Turtle Island (North America) to Opening Prayers and conduct Ceremony. Her spiritual ceremonial work has brought her to lead and be involved in ceremony with spiritual leaders throughout the world; including his holiness the Dalai Lama and others. Donna has seven children and nineteen grandchildren. Mi’kmaq is her first language and she speaks it fluently. She is a strong advocate for her culture and her people.
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Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nations). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder and co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, cultural practitioner, peacemaker, and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for today’s program to discuss their travels through the state of California as part of broader strategy of coalition and solidarity development is exerting pressure the University of California to formerly withdraw from the Thirty Meter Telescope Project.
Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, is presently under threat from the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project – twenty stories high (below and above ground), which if constructed would be the largest telescope in the world adversely impacting the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, land and waters.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for this exclusive interview regarding Amah Mutsun Nation history, culture, traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, California Indian histories, the ongoing work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/) to heal Mother Earth within their traditional territories and protect the sacred site:
Today on American Indian Airwaves, we got to the traditional lands of the Amah Muston Nation in Santa Clara County, CA where since 2015, the Nation and community member continue fighting to protect Juristac, which lies at the heart of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Nation, which Amah Mutsun ancestors lived and held sacred ceremonies at this location in the southern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, above the confluence of the Pajaro and San Benito rivers. Moreover, Juristac is colonially known as the Sargent Ranch and is under threat from the proposed Sargent Quarry that will impact 320 acres of traditional lands. The plan includes a 14-acre processing plant, three 200-foot-deep open pit quarry sites, a 1.6-mile-long conveyor belt, and a 30-foot-wide access road. An estimated 40 million tons of sand and gravel aggregate would be produced over the life of the mine, primarily for use in local road building and general construction.
Sargent Ranch is owned by an investor group, Debt Acquisition Company of America (DACA) (https://daca4.com/), and based in San Diego, CA, is behind the proposed 320-acre open pit sand and gravel mining operation on the property. Presently, the Santa Clara County supports the project.
Our guest for today, in this two-part interview, is Valentin Lopez, from the Amah Mutsun Nation and he is the Chairperson of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. He joins today to us today to discuss recent action by the Santa Clara County announcing a six-week extension of the public comment period on the draft Environmental Impact Report to comment deadline is November 7, 2022.
For Protect Juristic information, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/
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One-hour special music of different Native American artist and musicians. Musical genres vary. Enjoy and listen for who the artist are.
“The 16th Many Winters Gathering of Elders: 530 Years of Spiritual Survival & Healing Through Traditional Teachings”
Part 1:_________________________________________________________ Stephanie Mushrush (Washoe Nation), Chair of the 16th Many Winters Gather of Elders, and George Funmaker (Ho-Chunk Nation), committee member of the 16th Many Winters Gather of Elders, both join us to discuss various exciting details about this year’s The 16th Many Winters Gather of Elders being held on October 6, 7, 8, and 9, 2022, being held at Chowingna (Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, CA 90731). Both guests share information on what participants will experience this year at the MWGOE such as Indigenous elders and Native Americans speakers sharing songs, stories, and struggles from throughout Turtle Island; the local and regional communities, the strong participation by California Native Americans in the area, plus a lot more. For more information regarding the MWGOE, people can visit the website: https://mwgoe.org/.
Part 2:_________________________________________________________ Sarah Moreno (Chumash Nation) and Louie Robles (Ajachemen/Juaneno Nation), join us for this segment regarding their roles and families histories in relationship to the first and second generations of the Many Winters Gathering of Elders (MWGOE). Moreover, our guest share several intergenerational family experiences in relationship to the MWGOE and growing up an living in the settler colonial Los Angeles and Orange Counties areas, how California Indigenous peoples along with the larger urban Indigenous Los Angeles population growing participation has led to expanding the circle of culture and community at MWGOE.
The MWGOE was created on October 12, 1992 - in opposition to the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus Day, as means to reclaim traditional spaces, dismantle the myth of Manifest Destiny, and to heal from historical and intergenerational trauma. The MWGOE location, Angels Gate Cultural Center, is a place that unites art, community and culture through creative discovery, exploration, and enlightenment. The Center is open to the public, Monday through Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12-5pm. AGCC is located at 3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA, 90731, and admission is always free.
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Part 1 On September 6, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded the public comment period for its proposed Clean Water Act determination (known as Section 404c) for protecting Bristol Bay, Alaska from the proposed, massive Pebble Mine Project. More than 500,000 Americans weighed in on the proposed determination, bringing the total comments in support of protecting Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine to nearly 4 million.
Northern Dynasty, a junior Canadian company, is the company behind the Pebble Project. The Pebble deposit contains the largest undeveloped copper and gold resource, plus other minerals - estimated volume is over 6.5 billion tons. The proposed Pebble mine in Bristol Bay, AK is home to the Yup’ik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq peoples and 15 Native American Nations and the Pebble mine threatens their traditional ways of life in Southwest Alaska that depend on the pristine Bristol Bay Watershed and all it sustains. The region is roughly the size of the state of Ohio and the EPA decision determining whether to protect Bristol Bay or not is expected to happen by end of the 2022.
Our guest for the first segment of today’s program provides listeners an update, a history of the two-decade struggle, and how people can help stop the Pebble Mine project and protect the Yup’ik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq peoples, their traditional ways of life, and the homelands of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay members include: Togiak Traditional Council, Twin Hills Village Council, Manokotak Village Council, Curyung Tribal Council, Ekuk Village Council, Clark’s Point Village Council, Aleknagik Traditional Council, Portage Creek Village Council, New Stuyahok Traditional Council, New Koliganek Village Council, Levelock Village Council, Nondalton Village Council, Pilot Point Tribal Council, Pedro Bay Village Council and Chignik Lake Tribal Council.
Guest: Delores Larson (Aluiiq Nation), Deputy Director of United Tribes of Bristol Bay (https://www.utbb.org/).
Part 2: Los Angeles County has the largest urban Indigenous population compared to any other county throughout the settler-colonial United States. Today, as part of our Urban Indigenous Los Angeles we interview a long-time Indigenous activist, organizer, spoon keeper, life-giver, great-grandmother, mother, and so much more. Our guest has been instrumental and a bedrock within the urban Indigenous Los Angeles area for several generation. Tune in to hear her story, who she is, what her contributions are, and more.
Guest: Helen Herrera (Apache Nation), Indigenous activist, organizer, spoon keeper, life-giver, great-grandmother, mother, and so much more.
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On September 8th, 2022, Indigenous peoples and allies from Appalachia and elsewhere protested in Washington DC against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The protest – No Sacrifice Zones – was against the concessions demanded by WV Senator Joe Manchin in the $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act, which the concessions if granted will expedite the permitting process by gutting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) for the benefit of oil and natural gas pipeline projects including the construction of the MVP.
The $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 303-mile fracked gas pipeline spanning from West Virginia to southern Virginia and potentially into North Carolina, in the heart of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi nation. It is estimated once fully operational, the MVP would transport 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day and generate GHG emissions equivalent to 37 coal plants annually. The MVP pipeline is owned by the MPV, LLC which is joint venture consisting of several oil and gas companies including EQM Midstream Partners and NextEra Capital Holdings, Inc.; Con Edison Transmission, Inc.; WGL Midstream; and RGC Midstream, LLC.
To date, the MVP’s developers have amassed more than 300 violations of environmental laws, and they continue working to pressure Indigenous, POC, and poor whites out of their homes and lands for the constructing the pipeline. If development continues, Indigenous sacred sites, lands, ancestors, and more are at risk for permanent destruction. Despite the MVP, LLC difficulties, legal hurdles, and setbacks over the past decade, on August 23rd, 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted the MVP, LLC a four-year extension to complete the MVP.
Our guest joins us for the entire hour to discuss the implications of the MVP project including WV Senator Joe Manchin and New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s accepting political donations from one of the MVP LLC joint venture owners, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) throughout the Virginia and North Carolina regions, the potential destruction of sacred sites, land losses by Indigenous families, POC, and poor white communities; protecting Mother Earth, plus more.
Guest: Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck (Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation), co-founder of Seven Directions of Service, chair of the NAACP Environmental Justice Committee, and former Indigenous council person.
The second weekend of September 2022 marks the 20th Anniversary Tomol Crossing which is a Chumash 26-mile voyage across the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of Santa Barbara County, CA. to the island of Limuw (also known as the Santa Cruz Island). This year signifies the 20th cross-channel voyage in over 150 years and the tomol, a Chumash word for “canoe,” are ceremoniously constructed by Chumash canoe masters and Chumash community members. Today on American Indian Airwaves we speak with three tomol captains that have been foundations for the Chumash Nations, instrumental in keeping the maritime traditions alive, and pivotal in organizing the annual Tomol crossing. Part of today’s program includes discussing the significance of the 20th Anniversary Tomol Crossing, the cultural responsibilities of being a tomol captain, community organizing and sacrifices, perseverance, celebration, and thrivance in lived experiences for future generations.
For more information regarding advocating for changing Santa Cruz Island formally back to its original name, Limuw, please click here to sign the petition.
Guest: Marcus Lopez (Chumash Nation), tomol captain; Reggie Pagaline (Chumash Nation), tomol captain and canoe master, and Steve Villa (Chumash Nation), tomol captain.
On July 25th, 2022, Pope Francis apologized Canada's Indigenous peoples on their land for the Church's role in residential schools where indigenous children were starved, beaten for speaking their Indigenous languages, violently and sexually abused, endured various forms of forced cultural assimilation such as mandatory Christianization, plus more in what Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called "cultural genocide”.
The address to the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people was the first apology on Canadian soil by the pope as a part of tour to heal deep wounds that rose to the fore after the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools last year. It is estimated that between 1881 and 1996 more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools that were sanctioned by the Canadian government and operated by various Christian missionaries.
In the United States, Native American nations, communities, and families endure a similar fate as Indigenous peoples in Canada. Beginning with the Indian Civilization Act Fund of March 3, 1819, and the Peace Policy of 1869, and with the urging of several denominations of the Christian Church, the U.S. government adopted an Indian Boarding School Policy intended to implement cultural genocide against all Indigenous peoples. Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forcefully removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools operated by the federal government and the churches. And, by 1926, nearly 83% of Indian school-age children were attending boarding schools.
There has been a lot of discussions and reactions to the Pope’s apology, but what does the pope’s apology mean for Indigenous peoples and for California Indigenous peoples? What is the Vatican’s role in the creation of the Mission System? Will the Vatican do more besides apologize, ask for forgiveness, or will there be substantial actions holding the Vatican accountable for its violent colonial legacy of cultural genocide still impacting Indigenous peoples today? Tune for an in-depth interview regarding a California Indigenous perspective on Pope Francis’ recent apology.
Guest: Dr. Dena Dart, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, is the former curator of the Native American Collection at Portland Art Museum, and the founder of Live Oak Museum Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping museum narratives and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities.
For close to over 50 years, Dr. John M. Anderson has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His includes the Tejon Reservation in CA and the Treaty with the Castake, Texon, Etc., of 1851 between several California Indigenous nations whose lands range from presently what is known as Santa Maria to Lompoc to Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Long Beach — and stretching eastward into the Mojave Desert to a point between Barstow and Las Vegas. Marcus Lopez, Chumash nations, and executive director and co-host of American Indian Airwaves starts with part one of our continuing series titled “Beyond Missions: The History of the Chumash Nation” starts with Dr. John M. Anderson. For more information on the Chumash, visit https://johnandersonlibrary.org/
Today’s program focuses exclusively on the Tejon Chumash, their history, and how it relates to today. Guest: Dr. John M. Anderson, PhD in Philosophy, historian, and archivist. He has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Part 1 From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water,” (Owens Valley, CA) Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust is a brand new documentary having its national broadcast premiere on PBS’s POV on July 18th, 2022. The film recounts more than 150 years of history, showing how Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is tied to the city of Los Angeles and how the forced removals of two peoples -the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) who were marched out of the Valley in the 1860s and the Japanese Americans who were forcibly brought to Manzanar from their West Coast homes and incarcerated in a World War II concentration camp are intergenerationally connected. In addition, the film’s central character is piyah (water) and the film’s narrative weaves the intergenerational telling of settler colonialism violence, stolen waters from the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nations, cultural genocide, and more given the severe drought impacting Mother Earth and all that she provides. Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is beginning point of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that channels water to Los Angelenos. Tune in for this and more.
Today’s panelists discuss not only the film’s importance but also how it relates to the ongoing water and environmental issues to protect all life that Mother Earth provides. In addition, there is a July 17th, 2022, Day of Action Impact: Remembering Forced Removals; Uplifting Water and Land Protectors. For information, visit the Manzanar Diverted website.
Guests: • Kathy Bancroft (Nüümü [Paiute] Nation), and Anne Kaneko, director and producer of Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust, and Jin Yoo-Kim join us for the first segment of today’s program to provide listeners an critical and in-depth and intergenerational history of water in relationship to the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nation, Japanese Americans incarcerated at Manzanar, the City of Los Angeles, the importance of water as life, the corresponding day of action, and where listeners can watch the film.
Part 2 For close to over 50 years, Dr. John M. Anderson has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His includes the Tejon Reservation in CA and the Treaty with the Castake, Texon, Etc., of 1851 between several California Indigenous nations whose lands range from presently what is known as Santa Maria to Lompoc to Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Long Beach — and stretching eastward into the Mojave Desert to a point between Barstow and Las Vegas. Marcus Lopez, Chumash nations, and executive director and co-host of American Indian Airwaves starts with part one of our continuing series titled “Beyond Missions: The History of the Chumash Nation” starts with Dr. John M. Anderson. For more information on the Chumash, visit https://johnandersonlibrary.org/
Guest: Dr. John M. Anderson, PhD in Philosophy, historian, and archivist. He has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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On 2/27/2022, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Report was released with participation from Indigenous scholars, academics, and scientist in still a relatively new phenomenon (eight to ten years). For more sixteen years, Indigenous peoples were largely excluded in participating in the previous IPCC assessment reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988. In 1990, the IPCC’s First Assessment Report (FAR) was published. However, in 2007, the IPCC and former U.S. President Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize while Indigenous peoples were absent and often locked out of the IPCC and WMO process.
Today’s guest is one several Indigenous academics, scholars, and scientist to participate and contribute to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Tune in for summary and update on the report’s highlight in Protecting Mother Earth.
Guest: Dr. Kyle Whyte, Potawatomi Nation, PhD, is a George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability and Affiliate Professor of Native American Studies and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, teaching in the SEAS environmental justice specialization. Dr. Whyte’s research addresses environmental justice, focusing on moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the anthropocene.
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Part 1 For close to over 50 years, Dr. John M. Anderson has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His includes the Tejon Reservation in CA and the Treaty with the Castake, Texon, Etc., of 1851 between several California Indigenous nations whose lands range from presently what is known as Santa Maria to Lompoc to Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Long Beach — and stretching eastward into the Mojave Desert to a point between Barstow and Las Vegas. Marcus Lopez, Chumash nations, and executive director and co-host of American Indian Airwaves starts with part one of our continuing series titled “Beyond Missions: The History of the Chumash Nation” starts with Dr. John M. Anderson. For more information on the Chumash, visit https://johnandersonlibrary.org/
Guest: Dr. John M. Anderson, PhD in Philosophy, historian, and archivist. He has been researching into and writing on the Chumash history and culture since the early 1970s at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Part 2 William I. Robinson’s new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic, is a big picture synthesis of a global capitalism in a state of deep crisis that is cascading social, political, and cultural conflicts all over Mother Earth with dire implications for not only Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations, but also the futures of lives unless massive structural changes immediately occur. One major factor to the inordinate concentration of political, economic, and cultural power is a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society and of the social and political during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; and Robinson contends the pandemic lockdowns served as dry runs for how digitalization may allow the dominant groups to step up restructuring time and space and to exercise greater control over the global working class. The global capitalist system is now pushing toward expansion through militarization, wars, and conflicts, through a new round of violent dispossession, and through further plunder of the state. All this and more in part one of a three-part interview with William I. Robinson on Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
Guest: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of the new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
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Thursday, 5/12/2022, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) “Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic, Part 2“ Part 1 William I. Robinson’s new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic, is a big picture synthesis of a global capitalism in a state of deep crisis that is cascading social, political, and cultural conflicts all over Mother Earth with dire implications for not only Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations, but also the futures of lives unless massive structural changes immediately occur. One major factor to the inordinate concentration of political, economic, and cultural power is a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society and of the social and political during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; and Robinson contends the pandemic lockdowns served as dry runs for how digitalization may allow the dominant groups to step up restructuring time and space and to exercise greater control over the global working class. The global capitalist system is now pushing toward expansion through militarization, wars, and conflicts, through a new round of violent dispossession, and through further plunder of the state. All this and more in part one of a three-part interview with William I. Robinson on Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
Guest: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of the new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
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William I. Robinson’s new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic, is a big picture synthesis of a global capitalism in a state of deep crisis that is cascading social, political, and cultural conflicts all over Mother Earth with dire implications for not only Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations, but also the futures of lives unless massive structural changes immediately occur. One major factor to the inordinate concentration of political, economic, and cultural power is a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society and of the social and political during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; and Robinson contends the pandemic lockdowns served as dry runs for how digitalization may allow the dominant groups to step up restructuring time and space and to exercise greater control over the global working class. The global capitalist system is now pushing toward expansion through militarization, wars, and conflicts, through a new round of violent dispossession, and through further plunder of the state. All this and more in part one of a three-part interview with William I. Robinson on Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
Guest: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of the new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).
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Part 1 The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health, and human rights. Since 2000, Indigenous peoples throughout the world have been and continue participating in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as an international mechanism for articulating our grievances to the international, settler colonial, nation-states.
From April 25th, 2022, to May 6th, 2022, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is being held at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s theme is “Indigenous peoples, business, autonomy and the human rights principles of due diligence including free, prior and informed consent”. In the first segment of today’s program we hear excerpts from the UN Press Conference Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held on April 25, 2022, and the call for the United Nations to launch a formal investigation into the Canadian government's role in violating the human rights of Indigenous peoples and their First Nations associated with Canada’s violent legacy of residential schools and committing acts of genocide.
Guests: RoseAnne Archibald (Taykwa Tagamou Nation), the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), and the first female National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations speaking at the April 25th, 2022 press conference.
Part 2: The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other developed country. In fact, in March 2020, before many COVID-19-related releases took place, about 2.3 million people were imprisoned in state, federal, military and U.S. territory prisons; local and federal jails; juvenile and immigration detention centers; Indian Country jails; civil commitment centers and state psychiatric hospitals. In addition, before the 1970s, 100 people out of every 100,000 were incarcerated. In 2018, 655 people out of 100,000 were behind bars.
Native American, American Indians, Native Hawaiians, etc., often are disproportionately incarcerated at higher rates compared to “other” populations. In some states, such South and North Dakotas, Alaska, etc., Native Americans comprise of ~10% of the state’s overall population but represent ~38% of the prison population. Nonetheless, the prison-industrial-complex system has consistently grown since early 1970s when former U.S. President Nixon declared the “War on Drugs”.
In the state of California, over 5,300 mostly non-white incarcerated peoples are serving life without parole despite not committing murder. Senate Bill 300, The Sentencing Reform Act of 2021, passed the California senate in 2021, but still needs to pass the California state assembly. Tune in to hear our second guest, a long-time social justice advocate, inform listeners about the need for judicial reform in helping stop incarcerated peoples serving life without parole who never murdered anyone, but did commit misdemeanors felonies. SB 300 would provide California state judges judicial powers and discretion in stopping this human rights injustice in the California judicial system.
Guest: Geri Silva, founder and coordinator of Families United to End Life Without Parole (FUEL).
Part 1 The People of the Red Mountain are an Indigenous led grassroot organization comprised of Paiute & Shoshone peoples, surrounding Indigenous nations, and supporters working to protect Pee’hee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass) from the possible construction of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northwest Nevada. If the mine is built it would be the United States largest source of lithium supply generating 60,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate annually. The People of the Red Mountain are calling for support in demanding the U.S. Department of the Interior to rescind the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project Final Environmental Impact Statement, Record of Decision, and Plan of Operations.
Lithium Nevada Corp. is a subsidiary of the Canadian corporation Lithium Americas Corp. which proposes to build the open pit lithium mine with a project area of almost 17,933 acres that will use 5,200 acre-feet per year of water (equivalent to an average pumping rate of 3,224 gallons per minute) in one of the driest regions in the nation. Lithium Nevada Corporation characterizes the mine as a “green” project, despite estimates the mine will produce an estimated 152,703 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year and will cause irreversible harm to the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Nation, ancestral massacre sites, the water, air, medicines, culturally important wildlife relations, and everything else the land and waters culturally sustain for the Peoples. The Bureau of Land Management approved the mine on January 15, 2021, without adequately consulting our tribal members. Tune in on how support and Pee’hee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass). The People of the Red Mountain (https://peopleofredmountain.com/) are having action on April 24th, 2022, at Ildewild Park, Reno, NV from 11:00am to 5:00pm. Guests: Gary McKinney (from the Duck Valley Shoshone Paiute Nation and Fort McDermitt) of the People of the Red Mountain. Joshua Dean Sr. (Western Shoshone, Walker River Paiute Nation), of the People of the Red Mountain.
Part 2: On 2/27/2022, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Report was released with participation from Indigenous scholars, academics, and scientist in still a relatively new phenomenon (eight to ten years). For more sixteen years, Indigenous peoples were largely excluded in participating in the previous IPCC assessment reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988. In 1990, the IPCC’s First Assessment Report (FAR) was published. However, in 2007, the IPCC and former U.S. President Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize while Indigenous peoples were absent and often locked out of the IPCC and WMO process.
Today’s guest is one several Indigenous academics, scholars, and scientist to participate and contribute to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Tune in for summary and update on the report’s highlight in Protecting Mother Earth.
Guest: Dr. Nikki Cooley (Dine’ Nation), Co-Manager, Tribes & Climate Change Program Interim Assistant Director of Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals: Office of Native American Initiatives Northern Arizona University. www7.nau.edu/itep/main/tcc/
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Part 1 Native Americans of all ages continue experiencing some of the highest SARS-CoV-19 rates compared to non-Indigenous peoples. In Los Angeles County, California Indigenous peoples are spread out, decentralized, and find it difficult to maintain community and cultural connections. Consequentially, after just over two years, the urban Indigenous Los Angeles communities are still recovering. Moreover, compounded with contracting COVID-19 or suffering other diseases, Native Americans continue to experience disproportionately high diabetes rates that result from various forms of settler colonial violence. Our guests for the first segment provide us an update on how the COVID-19 pandemic/endemic continues impacting the urban Indigenous Los Angeles County communities along with some of the frustrations and successes as well as provides important information for Indigenous Los Angeles peoples on how to participate in the Native American Diabetes Project, the first project ever to focus on diabetes for all Indigenous peoples living in Los Angeles County, California. For more information about the Native American Diabetes Project, email: nativedm@usc.edu or call: 213-764-4550.
Guests: Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, works with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center, and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII).
Runningbear Ramirez (Yuhaaviatam nation) works with Indian Health Services, is a well-respected activist, philanthropist, and creative consultant for luxury fashion brands. Fueled by his humanitarian passion, Runningbear divides his days between his philanthropic work and other business endeavors, joining the Project Angel Food Board of Directors in 2018.
Part 2: Native Americans have been and are veterans of settle colonialism for more than five hundred years. In addition, over the generations Native Americans have served in the various military branches of the United States. Our guest for today is a long-time urban Indigenous Los Angeles community member, a veteran of U.S. (Vietnam) wars, and provides listeners a critique of what it means to serve in settler-colonial wars, draws parallels to what is happening in Ukraine presently, and offers a message of peace, plus more. Part 1 of a two-part interview.
Guest: Jose Jesus “Joe” Anzaldua (Yaqui Nation), member of the Native American Veterans Association.
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Part 1 This past March 13th, 2022, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) issued a statement calling for the global mobilization against all capitalist wars. Three days later, on March 16th, 2022, over 20,000 members of the EZLN demonstrated in six Chiapas cities in Mexico, to protest all wars, and to show their solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, and the people of Ukraine, who currently resist a Russian invasion. The March 16th, 2022, action marks first massive appearance that the EZLN has made since 2012, when they appeared in different cities in silent marches, within the framework of the change of era according to the Maya calendar. Part of the demonstration is not only a call against all wars, including capitalism and militarism, as they have stated in the past, but also an urgent call to stop wars against Mother Earth. Our guest for today highlights the significance of this action, militarism, settler colonial violence, capitalism, as well as the EZLN Water is Life caravan focusing that focuses on stopping violence and protecting Mother Earth.
Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990’s by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.
Part 2: Native Americans have been and are veterans of settle colonialism for more than five hundred years. In addition, over the generations Native Americans have served in the various military branches of the United States. Our guest for today is a long-time urban Indigenous Los Angeles community member, a veteran of U.S. (Vietnam) wars, and provides listeners a critique of what it means to serve in settler-colonial wars, draws parallels to what is happening in Ukraine presently, and offers a message of peace, plus more. Part 1 of a two-part interview.
Guest: Jose Jesus “Joe” Anzaldua (Yaqui Nation), member of the Native American Veterans Association.
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Part 1 Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service (NPS) is reaching out to include Indigenous peoples cultural and historical relationship to Yellowstone National Park’s boundaries; however, simultaneously Yellowstone National Park just closed its public comments section on the possibilities of implementing a new Bison Population Management program, which could lead to the additional killings of some of the last remaining genetically pure bison. Meanwhile, the Montana cattle industry is ramping up its methods for kill even more buffalo. In fact, more than 90 buffalo relations were taken in 2021; 859 buffalo were killed between 2019-2020; and 12,575 buffalo have been killed since 1985. The buffalo are cultural significant to numerous Native American nations throughout the region and beyond.
Our guest, Mike Mease, for today is the co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign. He joins to discuss the recent events on the ground, at the state and national levels, as well as Yellowstone National Parks problematic and hypocritical positioning of including Indigenous peoples cultural histories into the “parks” reopening while simultaneously complicit in creating and supporting the conditions for the taking of buffalo relations, which are import for all living relations.
Guest: Mike Mease, Co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign.
Part 2: Education for Native American and Indigenous children in the public school system in the Los Angeles County area has always been problematic, fraught with forms of structural racism and discrimination, and antagonistic for a healthy and constructive learning environment that includes Indigeneity or culturally, educational based content. In addition, many Native American children are lost in the colonial system and often struggle to attend college and learn culturally-based Indigenous content.
Our guest for today, Shannon Rivers (Akimel O'otham Nation), is the Director of Programming for NDGNSLA., American Indian Resurgence Initiative/Native Ways to College (AIR/NW2C), NDGNSLA, a new gateway program launching in early 2022. Shannon Rivers discusses the state of education not only across the United States, but also in the Los Angeles County region and how the launching of the new gateway educational program reflects Indigenous self-determination and creates opportunities for Indigenous children and families to participate in a program assisting them to reach college and learn-Indigenous based content so children who become have the cultural and settler colonial tools for decolonization and helping Native American/Indigenous communities and nations.
Guest: Shannon Rivers (Akimel O'otham Nation), is the Director of Programming for NDGNSLA., American Indian Resurgence Initiative/Native Ways to College (AIR/NW2C), NDGNSLA.
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Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder and co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for today’s program to discuss their travels through the state of California as part of broader strategy of coalition and solidarity development is exerting pressure on two controlling parties, the University of California and the California Institute of Technology, from withdrawing from the Thirty Meter Telescope Project.
Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, is presently under threat from the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project – twenty stories high (below and above ground), which if constructed would be the largest telescope in the world adversely impacting the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, land and waters.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
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Actions in cities throughout the United States took place on February 7th, 2022, calling for the immediate release of international Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier. February 7th, 2022, marks the 46th year of Peltier’s incarceration and January 28, 2022, he tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) virus at the United States Penitentiary at Coleman, FL (USP Coleman 1). Leonard Peltier, from the Anishnaabe and Lakota Nations, was unjustly convicted in the deaths of two FBI agents in a June 26, 1975, shootout in Oglala, SD between members of the American Indian Movement, defending the Oglala community and the FBI. Peltier’s two co-defendants were acquitted by reason of self-defense. Peltier, who was later extradited from Canada under questionable circumstances was tried separate. Peltier’s trial was replete with prosecutorial misconduct, falsified testimony, fabricated evidence, even the autopsy presented to the jury was done by an examiner who had never seen the bodies of the two agents.
The former US Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, James Reynolds, who supervised the post-trial sentencing and appeals admitted they “shaved a few corners” and “we could not prove Leonard Peltier personally committed any crime on the Pine Ridge Reservation” in his letter to US President Joe Biden calling for Peltier’s release. Today, Peltier is a 77-year-old inmate with a host of co-morbidities that should, according to CDC Guidelines, have prioritized him for a Covid Booster Shot. CDC guidelines call for booster shots at seven months, yet 11 months after Peltier received his Covid 19 vaccine, he had not received a booster shot. Visitors to USP Coleman 1 have noted the facility is not mandating vaccines for its guards or staff, Guards and staff were seen both without masks and improperly wearing masks, social distancing was neither encouraged nor enforced and booster shots had not, until recently, been available to any inmate at USP Coleman 1. Both the ILPDC and mutual aid organizations offered to donate N-95 masks for every inmate at Coleman were denied.
The United States Department of Justice, through the Attorney General issued guidelines for Covid Release to Home Confinement for inmates who were elderly and or had compromised immune system or Co-morbidities on March 26th and April 3rd, 2020. Leonard Peltier at 77 years old with a host of comorbidities including diabetes, hypertension, heart condition, and an aortic aneurysm undeniably meets those conditions. Furthermore, his home community on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota continues to request his return to his home community.
Today on American Indian Airwaves, Marcus Lopez and myself speak with Carol Gokee and Jean Roach (Cheyenne/Lakota Nations) co-directors from the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (ILPDC) who, along with friends, families, human rights organizations, and allies are calling for Peltiers immediate release. Both of our guest has and continue to maintain contact with Peltier and we start part one of this two-part interview with Jean Roach providing listeners with a brief history leading up to the wrongful incarceration of international political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
Los Angeles County is home to the largest urban Native American population, second to New York City. With the COVID-19 Pandemic encroaching upon three years, and Native Americans disproportionately impacted both in COVID-19 case and mortality rates and rising depression and more people struggling to maintain cultural traditional practices away from their traditional homelands, we spend the entire hour on Indigenous wellness, healing, and the many complications in providing the necessary services to the larger urban Los Angeles Indigenous community.
Guests: Monique Castro (Diné/Xicana), CEO and Clinical Director of Indigenous Circle of Wellness and Denise Copeland, Therapist and Wellness Provider of Indigenous Circle of Wellness (www.icowellness.com).
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Part 1 On January 22nd, 2022, the Karankawa Kadla and approximately 400 allies held an action against the Enbridge terminal expansion in Corpus Christi, TX outside of Bank of America on 2501 S Congress Ave in Austin, Texas. As part of an active lawsuit against Enbridge, the largest transporter of crude oil and tar sands in the nation, the Karankawa Kadla and allies are organizing protests across Texas to stop the development of the Enbridge terminal. Construction of the Enbridge oil terminal and pier is over the eastern portion of a Karankawa village site off Corpus Christi Bay in Ingleside, Texas. The pier will destroy Karankawa forms of cultural patrimony, sacred items, and the environmentally rich marshlands. In addition, there are plans to build a seawall pipeline that will transport tar sands from Houston to Corpus Christi pier for export. Tune in for an update and what future actions are planned for protecting the remaining lands of the Karandawa Kadla traditional homelands and stopping Enbridge. For more information, visit www.stopenbridge.com.
Guest: Chiara L. Enriquez (Karankawa Kadla Nation), https://karankawas.com, organizer, activist, and community member.
Part 2 Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists is part of ongoing series with special host Albert “Abby” Ibarra who interviews Madeline Sayet (Mohegan Nation). For her work as a stage director of new plays, classics, and opera - Madeline has been named: A FORBES 30 UNDER 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, A TED FELLOW, a MIT MEDIA LAB DIRECTORS FELLOW, a NCAIED NATIVE AMERICAN 40 UNDER 40, a recipient of THE WHITE HOUSE CHAMPION OF CHANGE AWARD from President Obama, received the NATIONAL DIRECTORS FELLOWSHIP, and is a National Arts Strategies' CREATIVE COMMUNITY FELLOW.
Guest: Madeline Sayet is an Assistant Professor in the English Dept at Arizona State University, and Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Her directing work has been praised by the Wall Street Journal as "enchanting," and the New York Times admired the "transparent and almost weightless" fluidity of the worlds she builds. Her work promoting Native voices onstage has been featured in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, GOOD Magazine, and MENTAL FLOSS.
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Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists is part of ongoing series with special host Albert “Abby” Ibarra who interviews Mary Kathryn Nagle. Nagle is currently a partner at Pipestem Law, where she specializes in federal Indian law and appellate litigation. Nagle filed an amicus brief in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on behalf of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) in pursuit of ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle is a leading voice among indigenous theatre artists. She served as Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, a program designed to support and develop the work of Native artists. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and an alum of the Civilians 2014 Research & Development Group. Her plays have been produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian.
Guest: Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation is a playwright, lawyer, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She works at the intersection of justice and drama to secure the rights and sovereignty of Native nations.
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Today on American Indian Airwaves, we recognize, celebrate, and reflect on the January 1st, 1994, historical event when the Zapatistas declared war on the Mexican government on behalf of the country’s indigenous people suffering from perpetual state and organized criminal violence throughout the Chiapas, Mexico region. Launched on the same day of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that went into effect, the EZLN seized government offices and occupied thousands of acres of private land and demanded democracy, liberty, and justice for all Indigenous peoples. The EZLN’s General Command issued the First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle which called for the creation of a National Liberation Movement. A year later, the Mexican government escalated the militarization of Mayan Indigenous peoples when they suddenly launched a military offensive against the EZLN and their communities of supporters, both inside and outside of Chiapas and implemented a strategy of civilian-targeted warfare, which led to the army displacing over 20,000 campesinos, destroying the Zapatista headquarters and started constructing new military bases. The militarized incident led to the negotiating the San Andres Peace Accords in 1996. and the first Intercontinental Encuentro in which during the week of January 3-10 the first National Indigenous Forum was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas. The Forum was attended by 24 comandantes of the EZLN, as well as nearly 500 representatives of over 30 indigenous groups from throughout the country. On month late on February 16th: The Zapatistas and the Mexican government signed the first set of accords which comprises of 40 pages of national reforms to be undertaken regarding Indigenous Rights and Culture.
For the hour, our guest provides an in-depth analysis on the importance of 28th Anniversary of the EZLN resistance to systemic state violence against the Mayan, the successes the Mayan peoples exercising their rights to self-determination, sovereignty, and autonomy; and their successes over the past 28 years despite the Mexican governments, the military, and organized criminal syndicates ongoing violence against the Mayan peoples.
Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to discuss the ongoing impacts organized crimes is having and spreading into Chiapas, Mexico.
“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists” is an in-depth series of interviews with Indigenous activist, artist, actors/actresses, playwrights and more about their legacy work and how their activism intersects with Indigeneity and the contribution across and within Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts.
Today’s program is in remembrance and honoring of William Yellow Robe Jr. (Assiniboine and Sioux Nations located at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana). He was a prolific writer, playwright, director, educator, activist, and more. William Yellow Robe Jr. also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Brown University, and the University of Maine. In addition, Yellow Robe Jr. has authored over 40 plays – more than any other Indigenous playwright, including, but not limited to: Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories, Rez Politics, The Star Quilter, plus more. Yellow Robe Jr. moved onto the spirit world in mid-July 2021. His legacy is indelible in the Native Theater movement that emerged decades ago with Yellow Robe Jr. laying the foundation, inroads, and creating the mechanism for the next and future generations of Native American playwrights. Yellow Robe Jr. is an ancestor.
Part 1, Guest: Albert “Abby” Ybarra (Yaqui Nation) Project Indigenous member, Environmental Education Specialist, actor, musician, and more joins for us for the hour to discuss his legacy work over the fifty years as an indigenous person and activist and how they shape and from his contributions to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts ranging from theater, television, and more.
Part 2, Guests: Sound from the second segment of today’s program is partial excerpts from the recent Native Theater industry William Yellow Robe. Jr. Memorial held at the Public Theater in New York. Here from colleagues, friends, and more who had the honor and pleasure to know and work with Yellow Robe Jr. as well as actors/actresses reading excerpts from some of the Yellow Robe Jr’s. plays.
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December 29th of this year marks the 131st memorial and remembrance of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 where the United States Calvary followed several ghost dancers and community members to Wounded Knee, opened-fired, and killed over 300 indigenous men, women and children.
More than 80 later, the struggle continued at Wounded Knee from February 27th, 1973 to May 8th, 1973 when over 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and their supporters occupied Wounded Knee at Pine Ridge, Lakota Nation (South Dakota) in a sixty-seven day standoff which resulted in a negotiated settlement between both sides. AIM and their supporters came to the assistance of traditionalist who were struggling against "elected" chairman Richard "Dickie" Wilson, whose administration along with support of the United States government, was rife with corruption, nepotism, and violence.
Join us for a one-hour special with exclusive sound from Pacifica's archives on the initial coverage of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee and exclusive sound from "'A Tattoo On My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973."
Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for the entire program to discuss what California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order #1519 (https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.18.19-Executive-Order.pdf), a soft public apology “on behalf of California to California Native American Peoples for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history” means to California Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations. Valentin covers numerous perspectives including the State of California’s public apology from a non-federally recognized California Indigenous Nation perspective as well as how non-federally recognized California Indigenous Nations are excluded, what the Truth and Healing Council means, what does truth and healing actually means, why the Amah Mutsun formally rejected the Gov. Newsom apology, how the COVID-19 Pandemic is impacting the Amah Mutsun Nation, plus a lot more.
Today on American Indian Airwaves we hear from two distinguished Indigenous elders on the National Day of Mourning first established in 1970. Both guest, Georgianna Sanchez (Chumash Nation), elder, cultural bearer, and scholar; and George “Tink” Tinker (Osage Nation), elder, cultural bearer, and scholar at the Iliff School of Theology, address the National Day of Mourning, what the settler colonial violent holiday, Thanksgiving Day, means to them, and what are Indigenous peoples’ understandings and comprehension surrounding this time of the year.
History of National Day of Mourning The National Day of Mourning reminds us all that Thanksgiving is only part of the story. Native Americans, since 1970, have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving Day. Pilgrims landed in Plymouth and established the first colony in 1620. As such, it’s the oldest municipality in New England. Many Native Americans, however, don’t celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving, to them, is a brutal reminder of “the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture.” They participate as a way to honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. “It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience.” The United American Indians of New England (UAINE) sponsors this event. They maintain that the Pilgrims arrived in North America and claimed tribal land for their own, as opposed to establishing a mutually beneficial relationship with the local inhabitants. UAINE members believe that these settlers “introduced sexism, racism, anti-homosexual bigotry, jails, and the class system.” The National Day of Mourning generally begins at noon and includes a march through the historic district of Plymouth. While the UAINE encourages people of all backgrounds to attend the protests, only Native speakers are invited to give these speeches about the past, as well as current obstacles their people have overcome. Guests are asked to bring non-alcoholic beverages, desserts, fresh fruits and vegetables, or pre-cooked items. The protest is open to anyone, and has attracted other minority activists.
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Parts 1 and 2: From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water,” (Owens Valley, CA) Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust is a brand new film recounting more than 150 years of history, showing how Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is tied to the city of Los Angeles and how the forced removals of two peoples -the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) who were marched out of the Valley in the 1860s and the Japanese Americans who were forcibly brought to Manzanar from their West Coast homes and incarcerated in a World War II concentration camp are intergenerationally connected. In addition, the film’s central character is piyah (water) and the film’s narrative weaves the intergenerational telling of settler colonialism violence, stolen waters from the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nations, cultural genocide, and more given the severe drought impacting Mother Earth and all that she provides. Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is beginning point of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that channels water to Los Angelenos. Tune in for this and more. There are several free, public screening of the film, including on 11/4/2021 at the Los Angeles Historic State Park in the traditional territories of the Tongva/Gabrielino nations. For more information and registering for attendance, click here.
Guest: • Kathy Bancroft (Nüümü [Paiute] Nation), and Anne Kaneko, director and producer of Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust, joins us for the entire hour to provide listeners an critical and in-depth and intergenerational history of water in relationship to the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nation, Japanese Americans incarcerated at Manzanar, the City of Los Angeles, and the importance of water as life.
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Part 1: In 2015 the United States congress passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included the rider: The Southeastern Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act 2014 (“Act”). The “Act” will grant Resolution Copper, a joint venture between Rio Tinto and BHP, the 2,200 acres located in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. If Resolution Copper succeeds in completing the land transfer, they will build one of the largest open ore and copper mining pits in the world, leaving once completed, a 1,000 foot-deep crater over 2 miles across. Chi’chil Bildagoteel (Oak Flat) is an active, cultural sacred site to the N’dee (San Carlos Apache Nation) and surround Native American nations.
The Apache Stronghold has been and continues leading the struggle to protect and save Oak Flat for future generations. They are presently on a Spiritual Convoy from the Apache Nation to San Francisco, CA for the 9th Circuit hearing where they are seeking an injunction to prevent the land exchange of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper. Turn in for this, what people can do to help, plus more.
Guest: • Lian Bighorse and Vanessa Nosie (San Carlos Apache Nation citizens), Apache Stronghold, joins us for the entire hour to provide listeners an update on the struggle over Oak Flat, the Spiritual Convoy from back home to San Francisco, CA, the Apache Stronghold v. U.S court case, and protecting Mother Earth.
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Part 1: United States President Biden recently, simultaneously, and problematically signed to the Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day Proclamations. While Columbus Day is also a form of state-sponsored hate speech, acknowledging Indigenous peoples in the same breath is questionably troublesome. Has the settler colonial attention and support of Indigenous Peoples Day resulted in more performative gestures in the politics of inclusion? Meanwhile, Indigenous communities and nations remained highly under resourced.
Approximately, one out every four Native Americans are considered “disabled,” according to the United States Census Bureau. Within the context of Indigenous justice movements, how does disability justice intersect with Indigenous and environmental justice work?
Guest: • Jen Deerinwater (is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, bisexual, Two Spirit, multiply-disabled journalist, speaker and organizer who covers the issues hir communities face with an intersectional lens. She’s a contributor at Truthout and founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism. Jen is the co-editor of Sacred and Subversive and hir work is included in the anthologies Disability Visibility and Two-Spirits Belong Here.
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Part 1: The California State Parks is currently seeking public feedback on a proposal to change the name of Patrick’s Point State Park in Humboldt County to Sue-meg State Park, the original place name for the area by the Yurok peoples since time immemorial. Patrick’s Point State Park was acquired by the California State Parks in 1930 with the place name of Patrick’s Point already in use, dating back to the mid-1800s in reference to a homesteader, Patrick Beegan, a notorious and complicit person in the genocide of the Indigenous peoples of, now, northern California. Patrick’s Point State Park is located within the ancestral lands of the Yurok people on the northern coast of California in Humboldt County, 26 miles north of Eureka and 46 miles south of Crescent City
The California State Park and Recreation Commission has jurisdiction over the naming of units of the State Parks System. California State Parks is recommending that the Commission approve the changing of Patrick’s Point State Park name to Sue-meg State Park at the Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, meeting. Public feedback on this potential name change will be accepted by COB Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Written comments may be emailed to planning@parks.ca.gov with the words “Patrick’s Point Name Change” in the subject line.
Guest: • Chris Peters (Puhlik-lah/Karuk Nations), president of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, joins us for the first segment to discuss the history of land, its violent colonial legacy, and the significance of calling to action the reclaiming and renaming of Patrick’s Point State Park Sue-meg State Park.
Part 2: Anahuacalmecac International University is the only Indigenous school in Los Angeles County that has been providing Indigenous education for over twenty years. Despite a violent legacy of Native Americans public school educational experiences, from facing systemic forms of racism ranging disproportionate discipline actions against Native American students to harmful and offensive public-school curriculum, Anahuacalmecac International University continues to provide Indigenous students a sanctuary for learning. Our guest for today, discuss the schools progress over the years and its new American Indian Resurgence Initiative and how it will benefit Indigenous students and parents in providing a more enriching, safe, and dynamic equivalent high school education. https://ndgnsla.org/.
Guest: • Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head of the School at Anahuacalmecac International University in Los Angeles County, CA.
“Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists” – an in-depth series of interviews with Indigenous activist, artist, actors/actresses, playwrights and more about their legacy work and how their activism intersects with Indigeneity and the contribution across and within Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts. Special Guest Co-Host for today is Albert “Abby” Ybarra (Yaqui Nation).
Guest: Ryan Victor Pierce, "Opalanietet," is a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation of New Jersey. Upon graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Opalanietet has performed in workshops and productions at such renown New York theatrical institutions as New Dramatists, LaMaMa E.T.C. and New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.
In 2012, Opalanietet founded Eagle Project, a theater company dedicated to exploring the American identity through the performing arts and our Native American heritage, http://www.eagleprojectarts.org. Through his leadership, Eagle Project has collaborated with and performed at the Public Theater, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Ashtar Theater in Palestine. In April of 2020, Eagle Project collaborated with the American Indian Community House of New York City and First Nations Theatre Guild to create Native Theatre Thursdays, a virtual reading series of new Native work.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder and co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project – twenty stories high (below and above ground). Our guests provide an update on the United States National Science Foundation’s new and committed involvement in supporting the TMT project, its implications for the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii. In addition, our guests articulate how the TMT project if developed will result in the destruction and further desecration of Mauna Kea, a sacred site, the disastrous adversities suffered by all the flora and fauna relations as well as the profound amount of water pollution resulting from TMT project.
Our guests provide an update on some of the Kupuna’s court cases resulting from being arrested when defending Mauna Kea, how the Hawaiian state tourist industry is contributing to escalating COVID-19 rates, and the further usurpation, dispossession, theft, and pollution by the U.S. military in militarization Indigenous peoples’ traditional homelands.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
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In Chiapas, Mexico, the territorial divisions between the major drug cartels have broken down resulting in open warfare which has spread to spread to Chiapas. Until recently, Chiapas has been relatively free from cartel violence. The criminal organizations have figured out that they can infiltrate municipal-level politics, run local candidates tolerating their operations, and heavily fund those campaigns (or intimidate or kill the other candidates), and gain control on the ground. The violence in the highland’s region of Chiapas around the communities of Chenalhó and Pantelhó is intense, with approximately 3,000 displaced indigenous (mostly Tsotsil) people. There has been very little media coverage due to the risk and fear of offending the cartels. In addition, the federal government has sent in its National Guard, which has done nothing to stop the criminal violence. Some indigenous peoples have formed their own self-defense militia group, El Machete. Turn in for more.
Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to discuss how Mayan Indigenous peoples have been mobilizing and resisting the Mexican governments continuous military actions in stealing and dispossessing Mayan peoples lands throughout Chiapas and Jalisco as well as how Indigenous peoples are presently being denied a basic right to education, plus more.
News headlines from Indigenous countries and an in-depth interview about the Dixie Fire, surrounding fires, the drought, historical trauma, and environmental grief are impacting California Indigenous peoples in northern California. We also discuss how traditional Indigenous fire management practices are a viable means for creating culturally sustainable spaces for future generations, plus more including commentary on the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report.
Guests: Don Hankins (Miwok Nation), Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico State. joins us for a two-segment interview to discuss the California Dixie fire, surrounding fires, drought, and its impacts on California Indigenous peoples. We also discuss historical trauma and environmental grief in relationship to the fires and droughts
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Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separate the territory of sovereign Native nations from lands claimed by the United States. Despite this rich and important history of political and material struggle, little has been written about bordertowns. Red Nation Rising marks the first effort to tell these entangled histories and inspire a new generation of Native freedom fighters to return to bordertowns as key front lines in the long struggle for Native liberation from US colonial control. This book is a manual for navigating the extreme violence that Native people experience in reservation bordertowns and a manifesto for indigenous liberation that builds on long traditions of Native resistance to bordertown violence. Guests: Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Dine’ Nation), professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and serves on the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, and David Correia, associate professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and organizes with AbolishAPD, a research collective focused on confronting the violence of the Albuquerque Police Department and committed to the abolition of police as we know it.
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Today we interview two contributing authors of Red Nation Rising, the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separate the territory of sovereign Native nations from lands claimed by the United States. Despite this rich and important history of political and material struggle, little has been written about bordertowns. Red Nation Rising marks the first effort to tell these entangled histories and inspire a new generation of Native freedom fighters to return to bordertowns as key front lines in the long struggle for Native liberation from US colonial control. This book is a manual for navigating the extreme violence that Native people experience in reservation bordertowns and a manifesto for indigenous liberation that builds on long traditions of Native resistance to bordertown violence. Tune in for more. Guests: Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Dine’ Nation), professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and serves on the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, and David Correia, associate professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and organizes with AbolishAPD, a research collective focused on confronting the violence of the Albuquerque Police Department and committed to the abolition of police as we know it.
News Headlines from Indigenous countries and premiering: “Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists” – an in-depth series of interviews with Indigenous activist, artist, actors/actresses, playwrights and more about their legacy work and how their activism intersects with Indigeneity and the contribution across and within Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts.
Guests: Albert “Abby” Ybarra (Yaqui Nation), Project Indigenous member, Environmental Education Specialist, actor, musician, and more joins for us for the hour to discuss his legacy work over the fifty years as an indigenous person and activist and how they shape and from his contributions to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts ranging from theater, television, and more.
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Indigenous peoples have experienced tremendous amounts of trauma since the colonization of North America by the United States and earlier colonial forces. Historical trauma spans generations and has created widespread adverse effects such as substance abuse, breakdown of traditional values, depression, internalized oppression, high suicide rates, and post-traumatic stress, and other various forms of genocides. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation (North and South Dakota), its citizens, and children, are not immune to the settler colonial violence and the challenges and obstacles presents.
Currently at Standing Rock, no entity provides Lakota youth a space to socialize, access and learn culture, feel safe, access high-speed broadband and educational sources, participate in mentorship programs, speak with elders, be provided basic food and necessities, plus an array of other “sources”. Today’s guests discuss their work in the creation and purpose of the Niyakhe Yuza Teen Center for the future generations of the children and youth at Standing Rock.
With a variety of different kinds of support, the goal through the center is to provide young people a space for empowering themselves through greater identification with Lakota/Dakota culture. Niyakhe Yuza Teen Center will also offer services such as language training, sweat lodge, field trips to sacred sites, job training, healthy food, tutoring, and multimedia skill development to name just a few. Financial support for the Niyakhe Yuza Teen Center can be sent to the Lakota Peoples Law Project, 547 South 7th Street #149, Bismarck, ND 58504-5859 and Hoksila White Mountain can be reached at: hoksilawhitemountain@yahoo.com
Guests: Hoksila White Mountain (Standing Rock tribal citizen), creator and executive director of the Niyakhe Yuza Teen Center and Daniel Paul Nelson, Co-Project Coordinator of the Lakota Peoples Law Project.
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Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation) is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest addresses the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples’ daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
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Part 1: The City of Santa Barbara, CA plans to completely renovate the Ortega Park in what is called the Ortega Park Restoration project. The “Project,” however, in its present composite will result in the desecration and permanent loss of culturally significant public murals as well culturally significant spaces.
Guest: Mark Moses Alvarado, founder of the One Community Bridge Project, a culturally specific non-profit organization, joins us to discuss the work he and the One Community Bridge Project, are presently engaged in as part of the Ortega Park Rescue Project to save and preserve numerous public and cultural arts (i.e. the Ortega Park murals) as well as protecting culturally significant sites in the heart of the Chumash Nation. Part 2: Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations are on the frontlines of Mother Earth struggling and resisting against violent forms of colonialism including nefarious manifestations of ecocides, democides, genocides, and the full dominant spectrum of “cides”. Today’s guest provides in-depth update on Mexican government continuous militarized land thefts and refusing Indigenous Mayan people right to education in rural, Indigenous areas and nations, plus more.
Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to discuss how Mayan Indigenous peoples have been mobilizing and resisting the Mexican governments continuous military actions in stealing and dispossessing Mayan peoples lands throughout Chiapas and Jalisco as well as how Indigenous peoples are presently being denied a basic right to education, plus more.
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Pagans in the Promised Land provides a startling challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. Using history and cognitive theory, Steven Newcomb demonstrates how U.S. government officials have used religious concepts of Christendom, often unconsciously, to justify the taking of Native American lands and to deny the original independence of Indian nations. He demonstrates that the landmark case Johnson v. M'Intosh is premised in part on the Old Testament narrative of the "chosen people" having a divine right to the 'promised land,' and how continued U.S. reliance on ancient religious distinctions between "Christians" and "heathens" violates the bedrock doctrine of separation of church and state.
Part 1: According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “American Indian and Alaska Native people were more likely to get liver, stomach, kidney, lung, colorectal, and female breast cancers than White people in most regions. In fact, compared to White women, Native American women had higher rates of getting liver, stomach, kidney, colorectal, and cervical cancer.” Today’s guest tirelessly works at the community level within the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation to provide medical and health outreach regarding cancer prevention methods, cancer awareness, and appropriate treatment methods for all Apsáalooke citizens. Turn in for more information regarding our guest works, allies and supporter’s assistance, and collective efforts of the Messengers for Health, an Indigenous 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located on the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation in Montana. Our mission is to improve the health of individuals on the Crow Indian Reservation and outlying areas through community-based projects designed to strengthen the capacity of communities and empower them to assess and address their own unique health-related problems.
Guest: Alma Knows His Gun-McCormick (Apsáalooke Nation), “is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation and fluently speaks her language. Her compassion for working with cancer stems from her personal experience of losing her daughter to cancer. From 1996-2000 she was the Outreach Coordinator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Montana Breast and Cervical Health Program. She first conducted outreach education with Apsáalooke Indian women, feeling a breakthrough about the awareness of the importance of the Pap test and mammograms. Later, she provided culturally sensitive education to all Indian women on the seven reservations and in urban Indian clinics in Montana. Alma’s focus has been on health education with the dream of continuing her work with women and men on the Crow reservation. She has fulfilled that dream by being the Executive Director for the Messengers for Health Program. She is a single mother with two sons, one daughter, and five grandchildren.”
Part 2: Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations are on the frontlines of Mother Earth struggling and resisting against violent forms of colonialism including nefarious manifestations of ecocides, democides, genocides, and the full dominant spectrum of “cides”. Today’s guest was the keynote speaker on April 19th, 2021 at the Strengthening the Circle: A Native Non-profit Leadership Program which thematically focused on the Rights of Mother Earth. The event organizers are Generation Indigenous Ways, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc., Artemisia Associates, Wolfstar Productions, and Hopa Mountain. Turn in for Part Two of a two-part keynote speech on “The Rights of Mother Earth” by a preeminent Indigenous elder, scholar, activist and more on American Indian Airwaves.
Guest: Dr. Henrietta Mann (Tsetsehestaestse [Cheyenne] Nation), elder, activist, scholar, founder of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, and current Board Chair of the Board of Directors for the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc.
Part 1: With the County of Los Angeles in California home to the largest urban Indigenous population throughout the politically defined borders of the settler colonial United States, declining SARS-Cov-2 rates, and SARS-Cov-2 vaccinations slowly becoming available, a collaboration between LA Native COVID-19 Response, the California Native Vote Project, United American Indian Involvement Inc., the American Indian Counseling Center, the Los Angeles City/County American Indian Commission, and Kedren Vaccines organized the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous COVID-19 Vaccine Pop-up community outreach event for free SARS-Cov-2 vaccinations, PPE, and food boxes for in-need Los Angeles American Indian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous populations.
The American Indian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous COVID-19 Vaccine Pop-up will take place this May 1st and May 29th, 2021 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park from 10am to 2pm. Vaccines will be provided regardless of the documentation status, and PPE and food boxes will be available for those community members in need. To RSVP, call 626-798-0505 or 626-398-6174 or email: aferguson@wdacs.lacounty.gov. For individuals requiring transportation within fifteen miles of the Los Angeles State Historic Park, please visit www.vaccinesrydes.com or call 1-887-VAC-RYDE (877-822-7933). Flyer information is below. Today’s guest provides important and detailed COVID-19 related information impacting the larger Los Angeles County Indigenous populations and logistics for the community outreach event, plus more.
Guest: Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, works with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center, and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII).
Part 2: Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations are on the frontlines of Mother Earth struggling and resisting against violent forms of colonialism including nefarious manifestations of ecocides, democides, genocides, and the full dominant spectrum of “cides”. Today’s guest was the keynote speaker on April 19th, 2021 at the Strengthening the Circle: A Native Non-profit Leadership Program which thematically focused on the Rights of Mother Earth. The event organizers are Generation Indigenous Ways, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc., Artemisia Associates, Wolfstar Productions, and Hopa Mountain. Turn in for part one of a two-part key note speech on “The Rights of Mother Earth” by a preeminent Indigenous elder, scholar, activist and more on American Indian Airwaves. Guest: Dr. Henrietta Mann (Tsetsehestaestse [Cheyenne] Nation), elder, activist, scholar, founder of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, and current Board Chair of the Board of Directors for the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc.
Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations are on the frontlines of Mother Earth struggling and resisting against violent forms of colonialism including nefarious manifestations of ecocides, democides, genocides, and the full dominant spectrum of “cides”. With over 77 Indigenous nations on the coastline of Te Ika a Maui, the north island of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and 67% of those territories are marine territories, today’s guest discusses a variety of issues including Maori acts of resistance, cultural traditions, being good ancestors, decolonization and reindigenization, and how and why colonial violence perpetrated against Mother Earth are intrinsically crimes committed against Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations. Today’s guest participated in a panel titled “Climate Change – Getting on Board?” on April 21st, 2021 at the Strengthening the Circle: A Native Non-profit Leadership Program which thematically focused on the Rights of Mother Earth. The panelist facilitator is Tia Oros Peters, Shiwi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples and event organizers are Generation Indigenous Ways, Seventh Generation Fund, Artemisia Associates, Wolfstar Productions, and Hopa Mountain. Guests: Tina Ngata is a mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui, the north island of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and is a Project Researcher Specialist, Institute of Environmental Science and Research in New Zealand (Aotearoa). Ngata’s work involves advocacy for environmental, Indigenous, and human rights. This includes local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste pollution and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a globally sustainable future.
Robert Miller, Julie Cavanuagh-Bill, and Steven Newcomb each present on the impact of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery/Dominion.
Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee Nation), an Associate Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon where he teaches Indian law courses and Civil Procedure, a first year class. Bob has taught and practiced Indian law since 1993. He has also been a part-time tribal judge since 1995 for many Northwest tribes and is currently the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals for the Grand Ronde Tribe. Bob has published numerous articles and book chapters and legal materials on Indian law issues and has spoken on Indian issues at dozens of federal, state, and private conferences in more than 20 states across the country. He has also been speaking about the Lewis & Clark expedition and the Indian Nations for the past three years and has published a book on the subject, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. Bob became involved with this project in 2003 when he was appointed by his tribe to be its representative on the Circle of Tribal Advisors to the National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial.
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Attorney and Western Shoshone Defense Project member and activist, has worked tirelessly to defend the traditional territories of the Western Shoshone peoples and nation as well as The Treaty of Newe Segobia (Ruby Valley) of 1863.
Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a legal scholar and one of the world’s foremost authorities on the doctrine of Christian discovery. In 2008 Fulcrum published his book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. In 1992, he and Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota Nation) co-founded the Indigenous Law Institute. Newcomb has been studying and writing about U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s. In 2015, Newcomb and Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) completed a documentary movie based on Pagans in the Promised Land. It’s titled “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015).
The New Adventures of Super Indian is an exciting, thrilling, and brand new three-episode, approximately one-hour each, audio play premiering on April 14th, 21st, and 28th, 2021 as part of the Native Voices at the Autry program at Autry Museum of the American West. Based on Starr’s popular graphic novels, Super Indian, The New Adventures of Super Indian tells the comedic exploits of Super Indian and the residents of the fictional Leaning Oak Tribe Reservation. Hubert Logan, an ordinary reservation boy turned superhero faces off against three of his biggest foes—Wampum Baggs, the ringleader of the Circle of Evil; Blud Kwan’Tum, a cursed vampire determined to become a full-blooded Indian by any means necessary; and Karlie Keane, a scheming social media diva.
With over 95 characters performed by a handful of Indigenous actors and actress in this three episodic audio play, The New Adventures of Super Indian is the newest artistic creation by Indigenous artist, musician, actor, and playwright, and a renowned comic book writer and artist: Arigon Starr. Also, the production marks the first time ever that Native Voices has premiered a play via audio episodes. Turn in for this one-hour special in discussing a range of topics including Indigenous performative arts, comedy, education, cultural appropriation, Native American presentations, colonialism, plus more, and how they all relate to The New Adventures of Super Indian.
Guests: Arigon Starr (Kickapoo Nation) is an award-winning musician, actor, and playwright, and a renowned comic book writer and artist. Her work with Native Voices at the Autry includes her comedy musical The Red Road and the radio comedy Super Indian. A former Tulsa Artist Fellow, she created the romantic comedy Round Dance for the Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company in 2018 during her fellowship. A member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, she is based in Los Angeles, California.
Delanna Studi (Cherokee Nation), has more than 25 years of experience as a performer, storyteller, educator, facilitator, advocate, and activist. Her theatre credits include the first national Broadway tour of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play August: Osage County; Off-Broadway’s Gloria: A Life, Daryl Roth Theatre; Informed Consent, the Duke on 42nd Street Theater; and regional theatres (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Cornerstone, and Indiana Repertory Theatre). Studi has been in more than eighteen world premieres, including fourteen Native productions. In film and television, Studi can be seen in the Peabody Award–winning Edge of America; Hallmark’s Dreamkeeper; Goliath; Shameless; and General Hospital. Since 2007 she has served as chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee.
Copy and paste: https://theautry.org/events for registering to stream The New Adventures of Super Indian.
Parts 1 and 2: (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: front-line responders and recovering patients; going out to work, staying home to work, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location, age, race, and health, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength, ingenuity, and love—for others and for self—to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country’s response. Our guest for today’s program is a contributory author in this newly published anthology.
Guests: Tia Oros Peters, Shiwi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples which supports community-generated cultural revitalization, movement building, and Re-Indigenization strategies. In addition, Tia Oros Peters has been active in community organizing, advocacy, and nonprofit development for over three decades. Tia is a recognized expert on the protection of Water as a sacred element for Indigenous Peoples’ cultural and spiritual sustainability, and on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard setting tool for Native Peoples’ organizing, empowerment, and self-determination. Through her water advocacy at the United Nations and national and regional organizing, she coined and defined the term “Aquacide” to describe the killing of the waters around the globe.
Just over more than 90 buffalo relations lives have been take in 2021. In addition, there has been 859 buffalo killed between 2019-2020; 12,575 buffalo killed since 1985, and there have 540 buffalo captured by the Yellowstone National Park: 540. Over the past several months Montana’s state legislature has introduced HB318 and HB302. HB318 will reclassify the original buffalo from wild and feral to domesticated. If HB318 passes, then it will be legal to kill the original buffalo that is older than American. HB302 usurps Montana’s state constitutional power and places it into a local county board operating favorably for hunters and ranchers killing the original buffalo. Also, what is the current management approach for the Yellowstone National Park bison? Why is the National Park Service complicit in kill the original Buffalo relations? Since 1997, the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) has been at the forefront of protecting the last free roaming heard of bison relatives in the lower forty-eight states and promoting and advocating for the increase of the bison habitat and populations. Turn in to learn more.
Guests: Stephanie Seay, Media Coordinator of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), joins us for the entire program to discuss the works of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the continuous struggles of protecting the last remaining, genetically original buffalo from “state” and hunters killing these relatives, why the BFC had to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly’s office and why the court ordered the release of records the park, plus more.
Dr. Faviana Hirsch-Dubin joins us of the entire segment to discuss the 25th Anniversary of the San Andres Accords on Indigenous Rights and Culture. The San Andres Accords are agreement between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Mexican government during the Ernesto Zedillo administration. The “Accords” were executed on February 16th, 1996 in Chiapas should have secured full autonomy, recognition, and rights to the Indigenous populations of Mexico. Five basic principles are central tenets of the San Andres Accords: 1) basic respect for the diversity of the indigenous population of Chiapas; 2) the conservation of the natural resources within the territories used and occupied by indigenous peoples; 3) a greater participation of Indigenous communities in the decisions and control of public expenditures; 4) the participation of indigenous communities in determining their own development plans; and 5) the autonomy of indigenous communities and their right of free determination in the framework of the State. Dr. Faviana Hirsch-Dubin articulates the historical context leading up to the San Andres Accords as well as provides an update on the successes and failures of the “Accords”. In addition, today’s program contains another segment on supporting KPFK FM. 90.7 Los Angeles, CA. KPFK broadcast throughout the southern California coastal counties and internationally via the Internet and various streaming platforms.
Dr. Kyle T. Mays is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA. He is the author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (2018) and finishing his manuscript for the forthcoming book titled, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, which will be a part of their ReVisioning American History series. Dr. Mays joins us for entire hour to discuss Afro-Indigeneity, the historical and contemporary forms of Indigenous-African American solidarity movements, the past and present complications of United States history and settler colonial violence, and how to move forward with stronger forms of Indigenous-African American solidarity and decolonial movements in the United States.
Dr. Donna Schindler M.D., author of Flying Horse: Stories of Healing and the Soul Wound (2020) joins us for the entire program to discuss Indigenous historical trauma, Indigenous wellbriety, and the various Indigenous methods and practices for healing the soul wound. Moreover, Dr. Schindler discusses the spectrum and types of symptoms characteristic of Indigenous historical trauma and how Indigenous peoples and supporters are addressing the settler colonial forms of violence that intergenerationally creates, shapes, and perpetuates historical trauma.
Give the recent event of the 1/6/2021 putsch or insurrection attempt in Washington D.C. reflecting the growing, systemic rise of American fascism, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, what are the interlinking relations between settler colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part one of today’s program for an in-depth two-part panel discussion about these question in relationship to the 1/6/2021 putsch or insurrection attempt by white supremacist and their settler colonial accomplices.
Guests: Dr. Faviana Hirsch-Dubin, educator, activist, and American Indian Collective Latin America correspondent, Marcus Lopez (Chumash Nation), Matef Harmachis, co-editor of Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party, and William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the book: The Global Police State.
Part 1: Given the systemic, escalating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout “Indian Country,” the rising COVID-19 rates reported by Indian Health Service and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous media coverage about the “Pandemic”, very few media reports, in fact, are on urban Native American populations. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the larger urban Los Angeles urban Native American population? Why are COVID-19 tracking records and methods so problematic that some estimates suggest that 35% to 50% of Native American COVID-19 cases are misreported and under reported? How much has the COVID-19 situation changed for urban Los Angeles Native Americans area over past several months? What types of resources (e.g., economic assistance, food, hygiene, health, etc.) are available for Native American peoples in need? Who is providing emergency assistance for the urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families? Where are we now in terms of available COVID-19 resources, where can Native American people go for the COVID-19 vaccination, and what are the current resource limitations at the moment?
The Los Angeles Native COVID-19 Response Coalition, comprised of various American Indian community development organizations, community members, and members of the Los Angeles Native American City/County Native American Commission have been instrumental, critical, and paramount in organizing and implementing effective methods of community outreach, data tracking, and providing basic emergency, humanitarian services for urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families despite the plethora of complications, obstacles, and unknown variables in the current COVID-19 crises. Turn in for part one of today’s program for hear from two community members and leaders addressing these critical issues and questions relating to the larger urban Los Angeles Native American community, plus more.
Guests: Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, works with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center, and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII).
Alexandra Ferguson Valdes (Tlingit & Athabascan Nations), Executive Director for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission.
COVID-19 Resources and Information be found here: https://www.facebook.com/lanativecovid19/ https://www.facebook.com/AICommission/ https://uaii.org/ https://locator.lacounty.gov/health/Location/3181175/american-indian-counseling-center https://lanaic.lacounty.gov https://vaccinatelacounty.com
Part 2: Give the recent event of the 1/6/2021 putsch or insurrection attempt in Washington D.C. reflecting the growing, systemic rise of American fascism, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, what are the interlinking relations between settler colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part one of today’s program for an in-depth two-part panel discussion about these question in relationship to the 1/6/2021 putsch or insurrection attempt by white supremacist and their settler colonial accomplices.
Guests: Dr. Faviana Hirsch-Dubin, educator, activist, and American Indian Collective Latin America correspondent, Matef Harmachis, co-editor of Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party, and William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the book: The Global Police State.
Part 1: On January 2nd, 2021, Indigenous activist, elder, grandmother, Mother Earth protector, Western Shoshone Nation defender and treaty protector moved on to the spirit world. On today’s program, we rebroadcast several segments with Carrie Dann. Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone Nation), was co-founder of the Western Defense Shoshone Project (WSDP) in 1991 and a tireless international Indigenous activist, who stood up to the United States government and Bureau of Land Management state-terrorism actions against her and Mary Dann in the 1990s. Carries Dann also opposed the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in the heart of the Western Shoshone nation and within the treaty territories of the Treaty of Newe Segobia (Ruby Valley) of 1863. Also, throughout her time, she was instrumental in the Barrack Gold Mining Corporations efforts to build one of the largest open gold-pits on Mother Earth and in the Western Shoshone nation lands that threatened the sacred site of Mt. Tenabo. American Indian Airwaves interviews from 2004, 2006, and 2008 demonstrate the veracity, tenaciousness, and the relentless sacrifices of ancestor Carrie Dann.
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Part 1: News throughout Indian Country
Part 2: The rates of various of forms of domestic violence continue escalating during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, more More than 4 in 5 Native Americans have experienced violence in their lifetime; more than 1 in 2 Native women (55.5%) and 1 in 3 Native men (43.2%) have experienced physical violence by intimate partners in their lifetime; For Native victims of physical intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual violence, 2 in 5 Native women (38.2%) and 1 in 6 Native men (16.9%) were unable to get the services they needed; Native women and men are five times as likely to have experienced physical violence by a non-Native intimate partner as compared to non-Natives; Native women and men are: 2 times more likely to experience rape/sexual assault, and 2.5 times more likely to experience violent crimes; homicide is a leading cause of death for Native women; more than 7 out of 10 victim-survivor callers reported experiencing more than one type of abuse, including physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, digital abuse, cultural abuse, and other complex situations; and nearly 40% experiencing violence reported a child being involved in their situation.
Guest: Lori Jump (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Director of Stronghearts Native Helpline, joins us for the entire program to discuss the rise of domestic violence and its various forms in Native American households and throughout “Indian Country” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, on December 17th, 2020 StrongHearts Native Helpline (1-844-7NATIVE) announced 10,000 callers have now reached out to the helpline for safe, confidential support and resources for domestic, dating and sexual violence. Tune in to hear more about the rise of domestic violence and the growing work of the Stronghearts Native Helpline and what people can do for assistance and resistance regarding domestic violence in Indigenous households.
December 29th of 2020 marks the 130th year anniversary of the Wound Knee Massacre of 1890 and the Occupation of Wounded Knee occurred from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is the result of the United States (U.S.) 7th Calvary stopped Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge in what is now known as South Dakota. The Would Knee Massacre took place near the Wounded Knee Creek during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American traditions and ceremonies. Shortly thereafter the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued which resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over 300 Indigenous women, children, and men. The Occupation of Wounded Knee from 02/27/1973 to 05/08/1973 is the outcome of over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupying Wounded Knee (Lakota Nation) in response to a call to action from traditional Lakota residents whose civil, human, and treaty rights were constantly being violated by corrupt Indigenous and United States government officials. The Wound Knee Occupation resulted in a 67-day military standoff with U.S. government officials and quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.
Today’s show on American Indian Airwaves is comprised of sound from two principal sources: The Pacifica Radio archives and the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. The Pacifica Radio Archives include original reports from Pacifica’s-affiliate station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA which covered live the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. In addition, sound from the documentary A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 includes reflective testimonies of the Wound Knee Indigenous activist such as Lenny Foster, Bill Means, Madonna Thunderhawk, and narrated by the late Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, plus more.
Tensions mount as Montana ranchers are increasing harassing, killing, and harming buffalo that leave the Yellowstone National Park. Today, James Holt Sr., executive director of the Buffalo Field Campaign, provides an update on the escalated situation and Jame Holt Sr. provides an update on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the Nez Perce Nation.
There have been 859 buffalo killed between 2019-2020; 12,575 buffalo killed since 1985, and there have 540 buffalo captured by the Yellowstone National Park: 540. What is the current management approach for Yellowstone bison? Why is there such intolerance for bison to traverse their lands, feed, reproduce, live, or be provided more suitable public lands? The state manufactured comparative risks of brucellosis transmission to cattle, plus human injury, and property damage have been systemically used as a pretext to strategically kill and slaughter the Yellowstone bison over the years and for years, the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) since 1997 has been at the forefront of protecting the last free roaming heard of bison relatives in the lower forty-eight states and promoting and advocating for the increase of the bison habitat and populations.
Part 2 of today’s segment includes our guest conveying how COVID-19 is impacting the Nez Perce Nation, its citizens, youth, elder, plus more.
Guests: James Holt Sr. (Nez Perce Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), joins us for the entire program to discuss the works of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the continuous struggles of protecting the last remaining, genetically original buffalo from “state” and hunters killing these relatives, why the BFC had to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly’s office and why the court ordered release of records the park, plus more
Dr. William Robinson continues his discussion of how the transnational capital class continues profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic, predatory capitalism, the potential implications of the Biden Administration and the continuation of the Global Police State, homelessness, Indigenous peoples and resistance, the need for cross solidarity movements in order for future generations survivability, plus more.
Dr. William Robinson discusses how the transnational capital class continues profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic, predatory capitalism, the potential implications of the Biden Administration and the continuation of the Global Police State, homelessness, Indigenous peoples and resistance, the need for cross solidarity movements in order for future generations survivability, plus more.
News from "Indian Country," spoken word, and music. Song List: Joy Harjo, “This America” Black Lodge Singers, “Keeping it Flowing,” Album: My Family Snotty Nose Rez Kids, “Boujee Natives,” Album: Trapline John Trudell, “The Earth was the Mother,” Descendant Now Ancestor Raye Zaragoza, "They Say,” Woman in Color Alexis Raeana, “Keep My Memory” ft.Charly Lowry (Single) A Tribe Called Red, “R.E.D.” (Single) Joanne Shenandoah, “We Will Rise Up,” Album: Joanne Shenandoah Buffy Saint-Marie, “Carry It On,” Album: Power in the Blood John Trudell, “Spectator” and “Of Many Realities,” Album: Descendant Now Ancestor
The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus more.
Guests: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the books The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017), the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, plus more.
The Global Police State, World Economy, and Systemic Violence, Part 1”
Part 1 The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus more.
Guests: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the books The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017), the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, plus more.
With the National Interagency Fire Center reporting 79 large uncontained fires burning across the Western United States, and California experiencing almost 7,900 fires destroying or damaging a total of 6,200 structures since the beginning of 2020, along with California recently experiencing more than 3.4 million acres burn; what are the impacts, implications, and consequences the California fires are having and will have on California Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and all plant and animal relations? How is cultural sustainability envisioned given the precarious times we are in? What does California Indigenous nations’ cultural fire management practices mean in terms of traditions today and future generations? With the compounded effects of the twenty-year drought; the intergenerational, violent settler colonial forms of violence perpetuated against all relations, how are California Indigenous peoples responding and how does land loss contribute to historical trauma and environment grief?
Guest: Don Hankins (Miwok Nation), Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico State.
There have been 859 buffalo killed between 2019-2020; 12,575 buffalo killed since 1985, and there have 540 buffalo captured by the Yellowstone National Park: 540. What is the current management approach for Yellowstone bison? Why is there such intolerance for bison to traverse their lands, feed, reproduce, live, or be provided more suitable public lands? The state manufactured comparative risks of brucellosis transmission to cattle, plus human injury, and property damage have been systemically used as a pretext to strategically kill and slaughter the Yellowstone bison over the years and for years, the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) since 1997 has been at the forefront of protecting the last free roaming heard of bison relatives in the lower forty-eight states and promoting and advocating for the increase of the bison habitat and populations.
Part 2 of today’s segment includes our guest conveying how COVID-19 is impacting the Nez Perce Nation, its citizens, youth, elder, plus more.
Guests: James Holt Sr. (Nez Perce Nation), Executive Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), joins us for the entire program to discuss the works of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the continuous struggles of protecting the last remaining, genetically original buffalo from “state” and hunters killing these relatives, why the BFC had to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly’s office and why the court ordered release of records the park, plus more.
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Guests: Kathryn Ledebur, Executive Director of the Andean Information Network, joins us for this segment of today’s program to discuss the Jeanine Áñez, Bolivian de facto – coup president’s policies attacking Indigenous peoples, attempts to preempt, democratic elections, and systemic attacks against Indigenous peoples regarding COVID-19, plus more.
Part 2: On August 22nd, 2020, Mexico’s military attacked Indigenous peoples from Chiapas in response to their opposition of the 948-Mayan Train, which will run through their traditional territories. In early June 2020, Mexico’s President López Obrador officially inaugurated the construction of the $8-billion, 948-mile Mayan Train high-speed railroad, an infrastructure project that will begin in Palenque in Chiapas, travel northeast towards to Cancun in Quintana Roo with two routes encircling the entire Yucatan Peninsula link cities, including Mexico City, and towns in five southeastern states or the entire Yucatan Peninsula for tourism, transportation, and economic purposes. The Mayan Train project commences in the heart of the traditional territories of the Mayan people in Chiapas and the “Project” is opposed by Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Guests: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to provide listeners with update on Mexico’s military attacks against the Indigenous people of Chiapas and discusses how Mayan Indigenous peoples have mobilized, resisted, and responded to the proposed construction of the Mayan Train, the political and environmental devastation the “Project” will cause, the rise of the ECO-Tourism industry perpetuating greater and more romanticizing stereotypes about the Mayan peoples and Chiapas, and the political consequences and successes from resisting construction of the Mayan Train project, plus more.
“Chumash Reclaiming & Renaming: Indio Muerto to Hutash and MMIWG2 Human Rights Emergency in northern California”
Part 1: What does colonial place-name markers such as Indio Muerto (“Dead Indian”) Street in the City of Santa Barbara, CA mean to the Chumash peoples? The colonial street name origins trace back to the city of Santa Barbara establishment in 1851 when the town council directed Captain Salisbury Haley make a survey and map the “town”. Thereupon the surveyed location of discovering a Chumash ancestor, in an act of violence, Captain Salisbury Haley named the street Indio Muerto.
What is the symbolic meaning behind the street name “Dead Indian” and how does it connect to other colonial spaces that aggravate and perpetuate various manifestations of settler colonialism, racism, and historical trauma? After 28 years of Chumash activists demanding for the offensive street name to be changed, the Advisory Council to the Santana Barbara city council, unanimously voted 10-0 on August 10th, 2020 to change the offense street name to Hutash (Earth Mother). Turn in for this segment of the program to hear from two Chumash activist’s participation in this momentous event, what does this action mean, and what happens next? Plus more.
Guests: Marcus Lopez (Chumash Nation), Barbareño Chumash Tribal Council, Co-host & Executive Producer of American Indian Airwaves, community organizer and activist.
Fidel Rodriguez (Chumash Nation), long-time activist, community organizer, and host and producer of Divine Forces Radio.
Part 2: The To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' I Will See You Again in a Good Way Progress Report published in July of 2020 is the first report to cover Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited peoples within the northern California area. With the recent Trump Administration’s establishment of the Operation Lady Justice Task Force office opening in Billings, Montana and the same administration’s failure along with several elected officials to even consider The Reduce, Return and Recover Act - a proposed bill the late US House Rep. John Lewis wanted to see introduced that would be the most comprehensive piece of MMIW legislation going far beyond the Savanna’s Act – MMWIWG2 rates in northern California are alarmingly high.
In fact, according to the report, “SBI has documented 165 MMIWG2 cases in California. This makes California the state with the fifth-highest number nationally, trailing behind Montana (237), Washington (235), New Mexico (188), and Arizona (188). Notably, Northern California outranks many states, and if it were a state, would be in the top 10, with 105 cases.” Turn in for highlights about this newly released and informative report, the egregious human rights abuses chronicled, and a whole lot more.
Guest: Michaela Madrid (Lower Brule Lakota Sioux Nation), Operations Manager, Sovereign Bodies Institute.
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Part 1: Brief News Highlights around “Indian Country”.
Part 2: With the amplified rise of American fascism and authoritarianism during the Trump Administration, Trump’s desire to postpone the 2020 presidential elections, the Trump campaign’s strategies to preempt people of color from voting this November, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, etc. what are the interlinking relations between settler colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part two of today’s program for an in-depth conversation as our guest attempts addressing these very important questions, plus more.
Guests: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the forthcoming book: The Global Police State, recently wrote the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, and has published numerous additional books and articles on a variety of issues pertaining to Militarism, Global Capitalism, Repression, etc.
Part 1: Given the systemic, escalating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout “Indian Country,” the rising COVID-19 rates reported by Indian Health Service and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous media coverage about the “Pandemic”, very few media reports, in fact, are on urban Native American populations. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the larger urban Los Angeles urban Native American population? Why are COVID-19 tracking records and methods so problematic that some estimates suggest that 35% to 50% of Native American COVID-19 cases are misreported and underreported? How much has the COVID-19 situation changed for urban Los Angeles Native Americans area over past several months? What types of resources (e.g. economic assistance, food, hygiene, health, etc.) are available for those Native people in need? Who is providing emergency assistance for the urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families?
The Los Angeles Native COVID-19 Response Coalition, comprised of various American Indian community development organizations, community members, and members of the Los Angeles Native American City/County Native American Commission have been instrumental, critical, and paramount in organizing and implementing effective methods of community outreach, data tracking, and providing basic emergency, humanitarian services for urban Los Angeles Native American peoples and families despite the plethora of complications, obstacles, and unknown variables in the current COVID-19 crises. Turn in for part one of today’s program for hear from two community members and leaders addressing these critical issues and questions relating to the larger urban Los Angeles Native American community, plus more.
Guests: Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, works with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center, and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII).
Alexandra Ferguson Valdes (Tlingit & Athabascan Nations), Executive Director for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission.
COVID-19 Resources and Information be found here: https://www.facebook.com/lanativecovid19/ https://www.facebook.com/AICommission/ or https://lanaic.lacounty.gov
Part 2: With the amplified rise of American fascism and authoritarianism during the Trump Administration, Trump’s desire to postpone the 2020 presidential elections, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, compounded afflictions on Mother Earth, increased militarization, the ascension of the global police state, what are the interlinking relations between colonialism, race, global capitalism, and the contested American Empire? Turn in for part two of today’s program for an in-depth two-part conversation as our guest attempts addressing these very important questions, plus more.
Guests: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the forthcoming book: The Global Police State, recently wrote the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, and has published numerous additional books and articles on a variety of issues pertaining to Militarism, Global Capitalism, Repression, etc.
Thursday, 7/23/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen live at: http://www.kpfk.org or podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT). “U.S. Fragility in the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination: Fallen Statues, the McGirt v. Oklahoma Case, Solidarity Movements, Race, and More” Parts 1 and 2: What are the linkages between the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination to the recent bevy of fallen and removed statues of St. Junipero Serra, founder of the Alta Spanish Mission System that wreaked havoc and genocide onto California Indigenous Peoples? How does the recent McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) United States Supreme Court case that affirms the Muscogee Creeks Treaty rights relate to the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination? How does the recent Indigenous-Black Lives Matter (BLM) solidarity movement relate to conversations about the interlinking topics of race, the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination, and decolonization? Lastly, what does the significances of the announcement Washington D.C. R*skins name change and the contestations and clarifications of the settler colonial framing of the offensive mascot issues as part of the “culture wars”? Tune in for the entire hour to hear Steve Newcomb touch on all these issues, plus more.
Guest: Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape Nations) is a legal scholar and one of the world’s foremost authorities on the doctrine of Christian discovery. Newcomb is the author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008), co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota Nation) the Indigenous Law Institute (1992), studies and writes about the U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, and along with Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) completed a documentary movie based on Pagans in the Promised Land titled “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015).
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Part 1: NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen was among 20 Land Defenders arrested while protesting Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3rd, 2020. Over 200 land defenders successfully mobilized to the defend the Ȟe Sápa and the Treaty of Fort Laramie by preventing ticket holders along Highway 244 from taking the Keystone entrance to the Independence Day fireworks celebration speech at Mount Rushmore with President Donald Trump. Subsequently, the American president, Donald Trump, was upstaged by the success of the land defenders ultimately preventing a larger than anticipated turnout for Donald Trump’s speech, garnishing media attention over Trump’s speech, and raising the critical consciousness and awareness of the sacredness of Ȟe Sápa, The Treaty of Fort Laramie, and fostering greater solidarity for a just transition. Over 20 people were arrested and charged on July 3rd, including Nick Tilsen who was charged with two felony accounts and three misdemeanors which if convicted on all charges could result in up to 15 years in prison.
After being detained for three days, Nick Tilsen was released and he joins us to discuss the successes of the July 3rd, 2020 action, upstaging Donald Trump, his jail prison experience, the structural racism of the prison industrial complex system in South Dakota, the implications of being convicted for all felony and misdemeanor charges, honoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851/1868, Donald Trump’s violations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the establishment of the Black Hill Legal Fund for providing legal counsel for the July 3rd arrestees, the continuing work of the NDN Collective, plus a whole lot more.
Guest: Nick Tilsen, (Oglala Lakota Nation), President and CEO of the NDN Collective, a Rapid City, S.D. non-profit organization dedicated to Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grant making, capacity-building and narrative change.
Part 2: This past Thursday on July 9th, 2020, the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted on a new charter policy, LAUSD Policies and Procedures for Charter Schools, which threaten and possibly leads to the termination of charters schools such as the Anahuacalmecac International University, the only and oldest international Indigenous school located in Los Angeles County, California. Our guest provides detailed and insightful implications of the LAUSD recent actions, the Indigenous Education Now coalition’s submission of a formal complaint to the United States Department of Education against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and the Indigenous Education Now coalition demands that the LAUSD immediately address the Native student COVID-19 crises, and conduct Indigenous/tribal consultation with local Indigenous nations and organizations, plus a lot more.
Guest: Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head of the School at Anahuacalmecac International University
Thursday, 7/9/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
“Disrupting Settler Colonial Spaces: The Doctrine of Discovery, The Alta Spanish Mission System Impacts on California Indigenous Peoples, the Fallen Statues of Father J. Serra, California’s Public Apology to California Indigenous Peoples: One-year later, & More”
Parts 1 and 2: First, a short news segment of highlighted events. Second, with the proliferation of fallen statues of Father Junipero Serra in the state of California, what does this mean to California Indigenous peoples? Also, how does the Doctrine of Discovery factor into the recent events of toppling the statues of the perpetrator who created the Alta Spanish Mission System that left a legacy of genocides? During these transitional and eventful moments, what has been the outcome, one-year later, of California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order #1519, a soft public apology “on behalf of California to California Native American Peoples for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history”? What has transpired with the Truth and Healing Council established by the state of California since Executive Order #1519 was issued? And, what role does the Doctrine of Discovery play in all these historical and recent events?
Guest: Valentin Lopez, (Amah Mutsun Nation), Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. He joins us for the entire program after the news segment.
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Thursday, 7/2/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)- Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
“Colonial Legacies of Treaty Violations and Failed Trust Responsibilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Chiapas Resistance to the $8 Billion-dollar, 948-mile Mayan Train.
Part 1: With rising COVID-19 rates across “Indian Country,” in major urban areas with large urban Indigenous populations, and despite passage of The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in which Indian Health Services (HIS) received in April 2020 its last funding installment of $367 million out of $1.032 billion allocated, both Native American health facilities and IHS operations are still critically underfunded. In fact, with the United States (U.S.) government passing the CARES Act, the U.S. is paying closer to .23 cents from approximately .16 cents on the dollar for its treaty obligations.
Guests: Stacy A. Bohlen (Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Nation), Chief Executive Officer of the National Indian Health Board, joins us for a brief update on how COVID-19 is impacting “Indian Country,” reveals some of the hardest hit Indigenous Nations NOT reported in the media, articulates the massive infrastructure deficit in Indian Health Service operations and Tribal Health facilities resulting from perpetual failures of the U.S. government’s trust responsibilities with federally recognized Native Nations, plus more. Click on The National Indian Health Board COVID-19 tracker for a COVID-19 update.
Francys Crevier (Algonquian First Nation), executive director, National Council of Urban Indian Health, a Washington D.C.-based organization representing 74 urban Indigenous health facilities, joins us for a brief update on how COVID-19 is impacting large urban Native American populations, the systemic lack of proper resources needed for urban Indian organizations, plus more.
Part 2: In early June 2020, Mexico’s President López Obrador officially inaugurated the construction of the $8-billion, 948-mile Mayan Train high-speed railroad, an infrastructure project that will begin in Palenque in Chiapas, travel northeast towards to Cancun in Quintana Roo with two routes encircling the entire Yucatan Peninsula link cities, including Mexico City, and towns in five southeastern states or the entire Yucatan Peninsula for tourism, transportation, and economic purposes. The Mayan Train project commences in the heart of the traditional territories of the Mayan people in Chiapas and the “Project” is opposed by Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Guests: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, joins us for this segment of the program to discuss how Mayan Indigenous peoples have been mobilizing and resisting the proposed construction of the Mayan Train, the political and environmental devastation the “Project” will cause, the rise of the ECO-Tourism industry perpetuating greater and more romanticizing stereotypes about the Mayan peoples and Chiapas, and the political consequences and successes from resisting construction of the Mayan Train project, plus more.
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Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest address the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples’ daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
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Given the spread, severity, and potentially devasting consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic situation in the-midst of stay-at-home ordinances, school and employment closures, etc. throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County regions in southern California, three very important urban Indigenous community members join us for the hour to report on how the larger the urban Los Angeles Indigenous community is being impacted by the COVID-19 debacle, how community members are responding to the COVID-19 epidemic situation throughout the region, what work the guests, colleagues, and community members are performing in this dire time of need, and the guests provide insightful and import information on certain critical services Indigenous organizations provide to Indigenous peoples in the Los Angeles/Orange County areas.
Guests: Pat Lopez (Taos/Tiwa Pueblo Nations), community organizer and activist, a Los Angeles City and County Native American Indian Commission County Supervisor appointee (http://www.lanaic.org/commission/committee-to-commissioners/), an OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner (CRNP, MSRN) working as a clinician at the United American Indian Involvement Community Clinic since 2006 (https://uaii.org/health-clinic/).
Dr. Andrea Garcia, M.D. (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nations) is an appointed commissioner with the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission (http://www.lanaic.org/commission/commissioners/), works with Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health/American Indian Counseling Center (https://locator.lacounty.gov/health/Location/3181175/american-indian-counseling-center), and is a board member for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) (http://uaii.org/about-us/leadership/).
Monique Castro (Dine’ Nation), founder and CEO of Indigenous Circle Wellness (www.icowellness.com).
December 29th of this year marks the 129th year anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre whereby the United States 7th Calvary stopped Spotted Elk, Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers, and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge, now located in South Dakota.
Near the Wounded Knee Creek, Spotted Elk and community members were stopped by the United States 7th Calvary during a time when the United States government essentially banned all Native American traditions. Shortly after the initial encounter, a scuffle ensued and resulted in the U.S. 7th Calvary open firing and killing over 300 Indigenous women, children, and men.
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 is often inaccurately characterized as the last battle between American settler colonialist and Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations.
However, throughout the generations until early 1973, with little to moderate change of Indigenous peoples’ conditions, Native Americans continued to struggle as the United States continuously failed to honor any of its signed and ratified treaties while sustaining protracted policies of genocide and assimilation.
In a response to rampant civil and human rights violations of Pine Ridge residents, over 200 members of the American Indian Movement and supporters occupied Wounded Knee in the Lakota Nation from February 27th, 1973 to May 8th, 1973 in a 67-day military standoff with tribal and U.S. government officials, which quickly drew international and domestic support from people, organizations, and foreign governments throughout the world.
At the time, the American Indian Movement and supporters were responding to traditional Lakota community members request for protection from elected tribal chairman, Richard “Dickie Wilson”, whose administration, along with United States government’s support, was rife with corruption, nepotism, and violence.
Subsequently, the 67-day standoff eventually resulted in a negotiated settlement between the American Indian Movement and the United States government on May 8th, 1973.
Thankstaking Special: A Day of Mourning.
Georgianna Sanchez and George "Tink" Tinker both revisit the racist Thanksgiving Day Holiday, the propaganda surrounding settler colonial imagery and understandings, state-sponsored hate speech day, plus more.
Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for the entire program to discuss what California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order #1519, a soft public apology “on behalf of California to California Native American Peoples for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history” means to California Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations. Valentin covers numerous perspectives including the State of California’s public apology from a non-federally recognized California Indigenous Nation perspective as well as how non-federally recognized California Indigenous Nations are excluded, thus far, from the establishment of the Truth and Healing Council – a forced-federalism model of government-to-government colonial relationship, plus a lot more.
“Update: In the Heart of the Hawaiian Nation: Protecting Mauna Kea from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project”
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest address the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples’ daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
Dr. Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne Nation), elder, activist, scholar, founder of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Professor Emeritus at Montana State University (www.montana.edu/nativeamerican/henrietta_mann.html), and current Board Chair of the Board of Directors for the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. (7genfund.org/dr-henrietta-mann), was the keynote speaker at the Keeping the Homefires Gathering, in the Schitsu’umsh territories (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho), in 2015. Dr. Mann provides elderly words of wisdom of “Being a Good Ancestor”.
Thursday, 9/26/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
“Urban Indigenous Los Angeles Series: The Ancestors Walk and The 15th Many Winters Gathering of Elders”
Part 1:_________________________________________________________ Rebecca Robles (Ajachemen/Juaneno Nation), joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss the importance of sacred sites, the upcoming Ancestor Walk: 22nd Annual Pilgrimage of the Tongva & Ajachemen People, Carrying Prayers for Our Ancestors and Future Generations happening this October 5th, 2019 (Saturday); and the cultural significances of each traditional village site along the Ancestor Walk route. From Panhe, Puthuidem, Genga, the Village of Genga, Bolsa Chica, Motuucheyngna to Puvunga, our guest provides illuminating and insightful historical and contemporary accounts of struggle regarding each sacred place and the importance of the cultural and community gathering. For more information regarding the Ancestor Walk: 22nd Annual Pilgrimage of the Tongva & Ajachemen People, Carrying Prayers for Our Ancestors and Future Generations happening this October 5th, 2019, please contact Rebecca Robles via email at: rebrobles1@gmail.com.
Part 2:_________________________________________________________ Sarah Moreno (Chumash Nation) and Louie Robles (Ajachemen/Juaneno Nation), The 15th Many Winters Gathering of Elders (MWGOE) Committee Members, joins us for the second part of today’s program to discuss the forthcoming Concert to Benefit The 15th Many Winters Gathering of Elders. The MWGOE benefit concert is happening on September 29th, 2019 from 5pm to 10pm at the Peoples Place, 365 W. 6th St., San Pedro, CA 90731. Artist include: Sara Koyo, Aztlan Underground, El Vuh, Sallee Free & the Mourners, plus more. For additional information, please visit the Facebook event site at: (https://www.facebook.com/events/375102250108113/).
Sarah and Louie additionally share with listeners the importance of the community, cultural, and free MWGOE event happening this October 10th-13th, 2019 at Chowingna (Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, CA 90731). Moreover, our guest share several intergenerational family experiences in relationship to the MWGOE and growing up an living in the settler colonial Los Angeles and Orange Counties areas, how California Indigenous peoples along with the larger urban Indigenous Los Angeles population growing participation has led to expanding the circle of culture and community at MWGOE; what participants will experience this year at the MWGOE such as Indigenous elders and native speakers sharing songs, stories, and struggles from throughout Turtle Island; community, plus a lot more. For more information regarding the MWGOE, people can visit the website: https://mwgoe.org/ or visit the Facebook site at: https://www.facebook.com/events/204421047111904/.
The MWGOE was created on October 12, 1992 - in opposition to the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus Day, as means to reclaim traditional spaces, dismantle the myth of Manifest Destiny, and to heal from historical and intergenerational trauma. The MWGOE location, Angels Gate Cultural Center, is a place that unites art, community and culture through creative discovery, exploration and enlightenment. The Center is open to the public, Monday through Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12-5pm. AGCC is located at 3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA, 90731, and admission is always free.
“The Pathway for Indigenizing Mexico’s New Constitution: Respecting Indigenous Peoples and Afromexican Rights in the Constitutional Reform Process”
Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head Of School at Anahuacalmecac International University (http://www.dignidad.org/), joins us for this special program to provide listeners a critical and in-depth update: on the Final Forum on the Consultation for the Legal and Constitutional Reform to Address the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afromexicans in Mexico held on August 4, 2019 at the UCLA Labor Center, the complications and successes so far in the constitutional reform process, what the potential implications are for Indigenous peoples and Afromexicans, the possibilities and struggles for a major paradigm shift towards a plurinational state in Mexico, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigeneity, Indigenous pedagogical practices as part of the “Schools” participation in the Final Forum on the Consultation for the Legal and Constitutional Reform to Address the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afromexicans in Mexico, plus more.
The settler colonial state of Mexico’s estimates the Indigenous population is 17 million, or a little over 20% of Mexico’s population is Indigenous. The Afromexican population, Indigenous people of African descent, is approximately 1.38 million people, and Mexico has the largest Indigenous population in the Americas with 78 distinct indigenous peoples, communities, and/or nations according to the country’s Census Bureau. Moreover, in Los Angeles County, CA -where the school is located- there is an estimated one-million, plus Indigenous peoples from different original locations on Mother Earth. Thus, the trajectory, process, and struggle for reforming and Indigenizing Mexico’s constitution potentially could impact millions of Indigenous peoples throughout Mexico and surrounding Indigenous lands.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 4pm-5pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.
Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/, https://www.kpfk.org/archives/, and https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp.
Dr. Robert A Williams Jr. (Lumbee Nation), is the E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Professor Williams received his B.A. from Loyola College (1977) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1980). He was named the first Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (2003-2004), having previously served there as Bennet Boskey Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Law. He is the author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (1990), which received the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Center Award as one of the outstanding books published in 1990 on the subject of prejudice in the United States. He has also written Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 (1997) and Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America (2005). He is co-author of Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed., with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Matthew Fletcher, 2011). His latest book is Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). The 2006 recipient of the University of Arizona Koffler Prize for Outstanding Accomplishments in Public Service, Professor Williams has received major grants and awards from the Soros Senior Justice Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Institute of Justice. He has been interviewed by Bill Moyers and quoted on the front page of the New York Times. He has represented tribal groups and members before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, the United States Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Williams served as Chief Justice for the Court of Appeals, Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, and as Justice for the Court of Appeals and trial judge pro tem for the Tohono O'odham Nation. He was named one of 2011's "Heroes on the Hill" by Indian Country Today for his human rights advocacy work as Lead Counsel for the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of Canada before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. https://law.arizona.edu/robert-williams-jr Tonight’s broadcast is from a 2013 presentation on why the United States initially voted against the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
“Surviving the System: From Survival Mode to Renewal”
Part 1:_______________ Deborah Sanchez(Chumash and O’odham Nations), Community Organizer, Cultural Language Practitioner, and Professor, joins us for the hour in a one-hour exclusive on “Surviving the System: From Survival Mode to Renewal”. She recently spoke as the first keynote speaker at the World Indigenous Law Conference: Rights, Responsibilities & Resilience in traditional territories of the Acjachemen & Tongva Traditional Territories at University of California, Irvine (UCI) this past October 19th-22nd, 2016. The World Indigenous Law Conference is held every two years and was hosted in North America for the first time by Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. (http://7genfund.org/). The Conference is an international forum aimed at gathering Indigenous lawyers, practitioners, academics and those interested in furthering their understanding of issues facing Indigenous Peoples. Deborah Sanchez discusses a variety of critical contemporary issues facing Indigenous peoples globally on Mother Earth, how we got here to where we are going, plus a lot more.
Thursday, 1/3/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
“25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”
Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University (https://www.emich.edu/polisci/instructors/sholk.php) joins us for an exclusive one-hour special program on the 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurring on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress created by the EZLN in 1996.
Moreover, issues regarding the adversities and impacts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) replacement of the NAFTA of 1994 challenging Indigenous sovereignty, the AMLO administration’s questionable honoring of the San Andres Accords signed between the EZLN and the Mexican government in 1996, the AMLO’s administration bolstering militarization (i.e. military budget increase and the creation of a new National Guard that will be composed of between 120,000 and 150,000 members by 2021), opposition to the $6 Billion Maya Train Project which will operate through Palenque, Chiapas; the role of the Indigenous peoples providing humanitarian relief to political refugees, plus a lot more will be covered on tonight’s program.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at www.kpfk.org.
Missed shows for the past 60 days can be accessed at: http://archive.kpfk.org/
Thursday, 1/17/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
“Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Urbanity & Part 2: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”
Part 1:____________________________ Annita Lucchesi (Southern Cheyenne Nation), researcher for the Urban Indian Health Institute’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States Report (http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf) and doctoral student at the University of Lethbridge, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss in detail the Report’s findings, colonial state barriers in gathering information, massive underreporting of MMIWG, how systemic the problems are, American mass media culpability in censoring/distorting the issue, updated information since the November 2018 Report publication, plus more. With approximately 71% of Native American population living in urban environments, and over the half the urban populations comprised of Indigenous women and girls, the Report’s findings demonstrate the massive underreporting of urban Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is paramount epidemic.
Report Highlights: there were only 506 cases of identifiable missing or murdered indigenous women and girls since 1943; in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal, missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases. Turn in for more information.
Part 2:____________________________ Jordan Marie Daneil (Lakota Nation), Native Hearts Rising Coalition, organized, along with Cheyenne Phoenix, the January 12th, 2019 “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Panel Discussion: The Epidemic, The Stories, The Solutions” held at the Eastside Café in Los Angeles, CA. Jordan Marie Daneil spoke at the event on a wide array of solutions for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This segment of today’s program is sound from the 1/12/2019 event.
Part 3:____________________________ Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.
Missed shows for the past 60 days can be accessed at: http://archive.kpfk.org/ or https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
Thursday, 1/31/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
"Chumash Nation Coastal Territories in Remembrance & Cultural Revitalization, and the Conclusion of: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”
Part 1:_______________________________________ John Ruiz (Chumash Nation), elder, activist, and cultural resources specialist, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss how the Santa Barbara Oil of 1969, the largest oil spill of coastal lands, devasted traditional Chumash maritime relations and culture, Chumash resistance, cultural revitalization, and the formation of a major Indigenous organizations and institutions within the region and the State of California that continue operating on behalf of Indigenous peoples today.
Before any state or federal laws protecting ocean waters existed, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill occurred six miles off the Santa Barbara coast on January 28th, 1969, lasted over ten days, impacted the Gaviota to Santa Barbara coastlands, was the result of Union Company – now part of the Chevron Company – Platform A blow-out releasing approximately 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil. The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 is the largest oil spill in coastal waters and ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez oil catastrophes. In 2017, there were 1,366 offshore active production wells of 5,435 total offshore wells off the California coastline, which is home to approximately 40 California Indigenous Nations. Considering federal land managers moving forward in March of 2019 with the sale of oil and gas leases that include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lands nearby the Chaco Culture National Historic Park, and other sacred sites, John Ruiz provides an important, critical, and insightful historical account of what happened, relational harms, historical incidences of racism and marginalization, Indigenous activism and organizations, perseverance, plus more.
Part 2:____________________________ Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.
Thursday, 2/7/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org
Exclusive Interview
“In the of Heart of the Apache Nation: Protecting Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area) from the Corporate Pathology of the Resolution Copper Mine & the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March (2/7/2019-2/10/2019)”
Part 1:_______________________________________ Wendsler Nosie Sr. (San Carlos Apache Nation), activist, organizer, and former San Carlos Apache Nation tribal councilmember, joins us for this one-hour exclusive interview on the immediate urgency and support to protecting the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area), a sacred site under threat from the Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton joint-venture Resolution Copper Mine (RCM). Unless stopped, the RCM will commence construction and operations in 2020, desecrate and destroy a critically important sacred site to Apache Nations and surrounding Indigenous peoples and having permanent intergenerationally cultural losses, harms, and compounded forms of colonial historical trauma. In addition, Wendsler Nosie Sr. covers the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March happening from February 7th, 2019 to February 10th, 2019, a gathering for helping defend and protect Mother Earth and the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area).
The Resolution Copper Mine, if constructed, will be about 7,000-feet deep (approximately five Empire State buildings), the largest copper mine in the United States; within 50 years, the RCM will leave a crater in Mother Earth two and a half miles wide and 1,000 feet deep, and produce 1.6 billion tons of toxic mining waste.
Moreover, Resolution Copper Mine is receiving 2,422 acres of the Tonto National Forest lands, which includes Oak Flat, for free and is exempted from federal environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act because of former United States President Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act 2015 (NDAA). The NDAA included the rider, “Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act” and the Act was inserted in to the NDAA 2015 without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Apache Nation and its citizens. Wendsler Nosie Sr. provides an informative, profound, and urgent interview about the crucial urgency to protect the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area) before RCM receives the land in 2020 and begins construction.
For more information about the walk: http://apache-stronghold.com/
Exclusive Indigenous Musical Premiere: “Black Snake Killaz” by Sallee Free, a new song of her forthcoming solo EP being released on March 20th, 2019.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
“In the Heart of the Hawaiian Nation: Protecting Mauna Kea from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project”
Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more.
Liko Martina and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. In October of 2018, The Hawaii Supreme Court approved the Board of Land and Natural Resources’ decision to issue a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) to the University of Hawaii for constructing the TMT. Liko and Laulani have been traveling throughout the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples of California as part of the Mauna Kea Awareness Action at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) earlier in March.
The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
“4-Week State of Emergency in the Oglala Lakota Nation & Highlights from the Poor Peoples Campaign in Pacoima, CA Public Hearing on Homelessness & Poverty”
Parts 1:___________________________________ Helene Gaddie (Oglala Lakota Nation) is a community member, long time activist, and continues to work tirelessly, along with other Indigenous community members to provide basic human services to Pine Ridge citizens of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For the past four weeks, the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, SD has been enduring a four-week state of emergency resulting from two massive cyclones with blizzard conditions, freezing temperatures; snow, sleet, rain and flooding causing over 1,500 Oglala Lakota citizens to be displaced from their, scores of community member without drinkable water and adequate shelter and heat and/or skyrocketing electricity bills, plus community members in need of basic human necessities and services. Tune in to hear about the severity of issues and equally important what people can do help, plus more.
To date, the Oglala Lakota Nation has not received any state and federal (FEMA) assistance. Sign the petition demanding the United States federal government send and provide emergency services and supplies.
Emergency Contact Information: http://www.oglalalakotanation.info, https://www.oglalaoyankerelief.org, or call OST Emergency Management at 605-867-5011. https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/empowering-the-people-of-the-oglala-sioux-tribe?ms=web-home
Part 2: ___________________________________ Highlights from the 4/9/2019 Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA. An estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students are homeless and others living in extreme poverty – too many of those children and their parent are Indigenous.
In addition, according to the 2018 United Nations “Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America” it is underestimated that: “The 2016 poverty rate among American Indian and Alaska Native peoples was 26.2 per cent, the highest among all ethnic groups” and Indigenous peoples also have the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic group; 12% compared to the national average of 5.8 per cent; for more info: (https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536/files/A_HRC_38_33_Add-1-EN.pdf).
Parts 3:___________________________________ Trini Rodriguez, poet, co-founder of the TiaChucha Cultural Center and Bookstore, and a principal organizer for the forthcoming Poor Peoples Campaign Public Hearing on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA on Tuesday, 4/9/2019. With an estimated one out of every five Telfair Elementary School students homeless and others living in extreme poverty, Trini joins us for the final segment of the program to discuss the significance of the Public Hearing, how numerous Indigenous children in public school are denied basic living necessities and in need of humanitarian assistance, and what will transpire at Poor People’s Campaign on Homelessness and Poverty in Pacoima, CA; plus more. Information for the Public Hearing is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/275964423343334/
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
“Protecting a Sacred Site: Juristac, California Indigenous Histories, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Historical Trauma & Healing”
Part 1:___________________________________ Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for this exclusive interview regarding Amah Mutsun Nation history, culture, traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, California Indian histories, the ongoing work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/) to heal Mother Earth within their traditional territories and protect the sacred site: Juristac (Huris-tak), which lies at the heart of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Nation. For thousands of years, our Mutsun ancestors lived and held sacred ceremonies at this location in the southern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, above the confluence of the Pajaro and San Benito rivers.
Juristac, colonially known as the Sargent Ranch, is under threat from the proposed Sargent Quarry that will impact 320 acres of traditional lands. The plan includes a 14-acre processing plant, three 200-foot deep open pit quarry sites, a 1.6-mile long conveyor belt, and a 30-foot wide access road. An estimated 40 million tons of sand and gravel aggregate would be produced over the life of the mine, primarily for use in local road building and general construction.
The cultural landscape encompassing Juristac is known today as the Sargent Ranch. An investor group, Debt Acquisition Company of America (DACA) (https://daca4.com/), based in San Diego, CA purchased the land at a bankruptcy auction and is currently seeking to develop a 320-acre open pit sand and gravel mining operation on the property.
For Protect Juristic, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/ To sign the petition opposing the Sargent Quarry Project, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
American Indian Airwaves Presents:“Incendiary Homelands: Indigenous Peoples of the “Amazon Forest” in Peril and the National Parks Service Potentially Places Indigenous Sacred Sites At-Risk for Future Development”
Part 1:___________________________________ Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch (https://amazonwatch.org/), joins for the first segment of today’s special program to provide us a recent on update on the Amazon fires – particularly in Brazil, the lack of fire containment in Brazil, the frequency and spreading of the fires, the impact the fires are having on Indigenous peoples and communities immediately and in the future with the realization that some Indigenous traditional homelands destroyed will result in genocide(s). Also, Leila Salazar-Lopez discusses: how Brazil’s President Bolsonaro is advocating for the destruction of Amazon Rainforest and as a former military personal once called for the extermination of Indigenous peoples; how the Amazon fires were started by non-Indigenous peoples for business and corporate interest and as a pretext for the usurpation of Indigenous people lands; who are the transnational corporations benefiting and financing the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest; “Settler Colonialism;” Amazon Watch working with Indigenous organizations in Brazil and the Global Day of Action happening this September 15th, 2019 at Brazilian embassies and consultants, financial backers headquarters such as BlackRock – one of the largest asset managers and financiers of Amazon Rainforest destruction and Indigenous peoples-, Chase, HBSC; and other transnational corporate benefactors. For more information on the Global Day of Action, visit: https://www.amazonwatch.org.
For general background information: https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-complicity-in-destruction-2.pdf and https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-summer-investor-eye-on-the-amazon.pdf.
The Amazon Forest region is home to approximately one million indigenous peoples with over five hundred representative cultures and communities throughout nine Amazon countries. In addition, the Amazon Rainforest has more than half of the world’s relatives and species of plants and animals live in the region. Many unique animals are found nowhere else on Mother Earth.
Part 2:___________________________________ Wesley Furlong, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (NARF) (https://www.narf.org/) joins us for the second part of today’s program to discuss: the recent proposed changes by the United States National Park Service (NPS) to the National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP); how these changes, if implemented, could jeopardize and place at-risk for destruction and development purposes, over 95,000 historically and culturally significant places are listed on the NRHP – including a little under one hundred Indigenous sacred sites; and how the proposed changes will make it more difficult to place historically and culturally significant sites onto the NRHP. NRHP status is one federal protective layer but is not a permanent protective guarantee. The newly proposed changes would make it easier for government agencies to open up certain lands to development.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ or https://www.kpfk.org/archives/.
https://www.gofundme.com/d5pnsv-lopez-family-in-montecito-mudslide
Marcus Lopez Sr. (Barbareno Band of the Chumash Nation) and Co-host and Executive Producer of American Indian Airwaves, joins us from ground zero of the recent Montecito, CA mudslides in the heart of the Chumash Nation. Marcus Lopez Sr. family’s land and homes were directly destroyed or damaged by the recent Montecito, CA -south of Santa Barbara, CA- mudslides and presently living without heat, potable water, gas, and electricity. The Lopez family’s land has been in the family since the 1800s.
Marcus Lopez Sr. provides an exclusive interview from his home, at ground zero of the Montecito, CA, detailing what happened the day of the mudslides, the massive destruction caused to three Lopez family homes built in the 1800s, the 20 lost lives, the addition 100 homes destroyed, the 300-plus homes damaged in the Montecito, CA area, and Marcus Lopez Sr. provides an in-depth history of Mother Earth in the area, an overall report on the aftermath of the Montecito mudslide, plus more. Due the old homes built on the property, the Lopez family has struggled over the decades to avoid having their homes condemned by the city and county for not having homes built to city and county building codes. Thus, housing and property insurance is difficult to possess in these circumstances (every insurances refuses to provide home insurance). The Lopez family is left to rebuild with little to no financial support.
For more information on how to financial help, please go to https://www.gofundme.com/d5pnsv-lopez-family-in-montecito-mudslide. The GoFundMe account is created and managed by a close Chumash community member and family friend of the Lopez family.
Presently, all roads in the area and the 101 Freeway are closed. Thus, nobody is capable leaving or entering the immediate vicinity.
Thursday, 11/24/2016, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)
“Special Call-In Program for Standing Rock and Peltier Updates, Solutions? and More”
Part 1:_______________
Chauncey Peltier, (Turtle Mountain Chippewa/Fort Totten Sioux Nations), http://www.peltierjustice.com/, eldest son of Leonard Peltier, joins us live for the segment of tonight’s live broadcast. Chauncey Peltier will be discussing Leonard Peltier’s health condition, executive clemency, and the forthcoming Peltier Week (December 4th to December 10th) in Washington D.C. http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
Peltier Family and Financial Support for Peltier Week in Washington D.C. https://www.gofundme.com/peltier-family-support-of-clemecy-2w848fw?ssid=815683152&pos=1
Send Cards and Letters to Leonard Peltier:
Leonard Peltier
89637-132
USP Coleman I P.O. Box 1033 Coleman, FL 33521
Call or Write President Obama and Demand Executive Clemency for International Political Leonard Peltier
PHONE NUMBER: Comments: 202-456-1111
Or write
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
Part 2:_______________
Heather Rae, (Tsa-la-gi/Cherokee Nation), is an accomplished Indigenous film producer, director, and actress. Heather Rae has produced featured films and documentaries that include, but not limited to, Tallulah (2016) and Trudell (2005), as well as executive produced Winter in the Blood (2013), Young Lakota (2012), and Apache 8 (2011), plus more. Heather Rae joins us for the second segment of tonight’s show to provide an in-depth account of her experiences in the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and the effort to prevent Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline from being constructed.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, FM 99.5 China Lake, FM 93.7 North San Diego, WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet @ www.kpfk.org.
Thursday, 12/22/2016, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)
“The 12/21/2016 Defunding the DAPL Action at Kawee’nga (Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA):
An exclusive interview with Jane Fonda, Tokota Iron Eyes, Delores Huerta, and Frances Fisher”
Part 1:_______________ Jane Fonda, activist, Indigenous supporter, and actress of Grace and Frankie (2015-17) (http://www.janefonda.com/); Tokota Iron Eyes (Standing Rock Sioux Nation), youth activist and daughter of Chase Iron Eyes; Delores Huerta, activist and organizer (http://doloreshuerta.org), and Frances Fisher, actress and activist(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004920/), exclusively join us for the first segment of tonight’s program for an in exclusive interview to discuss their participation, along with 600 to 800 people, in the December 21st, 2016 BANKEXIT Action with Jane Fonda that transpired in front of the Wells Fargo Branch at 1600 Vine St., Hollywood, CA and Chase Bank -which temporarily closed, their opposition to Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline Project, Dakota Access everywhere, settler colonialism, civic engagement, temporary imprisonment, plus more.
The BankExit Action is part of a larger divestment movement to defund Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline Project (http://www.defunddapl.org). Jane Fonda’s BankExit action was accompanied by Indigenous activist, non-Indigenous supporters, and well-known activist and actresses such as Lily Tomlin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005499/) and Catherine Keener (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001416/) to name just a few.
Part 2:_______________ Frances Fisher, actress and activist, and briefly, Lori Woodley, founder of All It Takes (http://allittakes.org) join us to discuss their participation in the December 21st, 2016 BANKEXIT Action with Jane Fonda that transpired in front of the Wells Fargo Branch at 1600 Vine St., Hollywood, CA and Chase Bank -which temporarily closed - and their opposition to Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline Project. Frances recently returned from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and she shares her experiences and learning with listeners, as well as discusses settler colonialism, civic engagement and responsibilities, plus more.
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, FM 99.5 China Lake, FM 93.7 North San Diego, WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet @ www.kpfk.org.
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php/programs/43-american-indian-airwaves